John Sidney McCain's life and legacy are summed up by one word: courage. No modern American public figure more embodies that quality than the Arizona senator who died Saturday after a battle with brain cancer. He displayed courage during five and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam,…

Donald Trump's tirade a week ago against non-white countries may be tearing the final fiber off American soft power. Witness the worldwide reaction in the time since the president of the United States called African and Latin American countries "s---holes." This is the latest in a series of…