Recent Stories
Mark Shields: Advice on graduation day
The graduation speaker's duty is to provide some rules or advice for the graduates.
Mark Shields: The language of American politics and Internet tax evasion
To listen to the language of American political campaigns, you could reasonably conclude that "big" is bad and "small" is good.
Mark Shields: One man who gave politics a good name
Happy Chandler left the U.S. Senate in 1945, when the owners of the then-16 Major League teams elected him to be commissioner of baseball.
SHIELDS: The gun lobby and state's rights
Florida wants to license individuals to be able to legally carry concealed firearms in public places.
Mark Shields: Honeymoon for a pope
Pope Francis, less than a month in office, is enjoying what could be called a real political honeymoon.
Mark Shields: A war with no victors
The United States 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq was indeed a war with no victors.
Mark Sheilds: Am I being grumpy?
Let me stipulate at the outset: I do not qualify for any youth movement.
Mark Shields: Can this marriage be saved?
The Great Public Squabble of 2013 may not be helping the nation. But it is manifestly hurting the Republican Party.
Mark Shields: A maligned generation
This past Monday night, along with 680 other lucky people in Washington’s historic Ford’s Theatre, I was able to enjoy the wit and wisdom of America’s dominant political satirist, Mark Russell.