Author: Susan Page, USA TODAY

Bob Dole and my father shared geography, a generation and a war – and the foundation that western Kansas gave them, Susan Page writes.

Despite calls for police reform, residents in Louisville and Oklahoma City worry more about rising crime than police misconduct.

Twenty years after U.S. bombers arrived, the last U.S. cargo plane departs a war that has left its mark, and its sorrow, on four presidents.

Instead of savoring credit for ending America’s longest war, Biden faces withering criticism for the inept U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Where’s the chatty, centrist “Uncle Joe” we knew? As president, he’s talked less and proposed bolder policies, from climate to the economy.

John Boehner gives an extraordinary rebuke of the GOP, an excoriation without precedent in modern times, leveled by one of the party’s most senior figures.

A USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll after the mass shootings in Georgia and Colorado shows 65% of Americans want tougher guns laws, but GOP support falls to 35%.

After the votes are counted, Job One for Trump or Biden may be convincing Americans on the other side to accept his election as legitimate.

By choosing Kamala Harris as his running mate, Joe Biden signals that he doesn’t want to rock the boat in this campaign, and he doesn’t hold a grudge.

The iconic civil rights leader was all about bridges, from marching in Selma in 1965 to providing links to a new generation of racial protests today.