It was one of the more embarrassing moments in an embarrassing year — decade? — for Congress. As Islamic State rampaged through Syria and Iraq over the summer, Congress ...
It will be a few years before we could see small drone helicopters delivering boxes from Amazon.com. At least that’s the message from proposed regulations issued by the ...
Aaron Schock gets attention for things that most members of Congress don’t. Often it’s positive, as when the 33-year-old Republican congressman from Peoria appeared on t...
Most presidential campaigns focus mostly on domestic issues such as the economy, taxes and healthcare, not foreign policy. But the 2016 presidential campaign is already ...
Assuming it doesn’t unravel — a big assumption — the agreement on the future of Ukraine announced last week is preferable to the continuation of a conflict in which 5,00...
I pulled from a scrapbook a “Weekender” column I wrote for the Lehigh University Brown and White in 1982: “Friday Happy Hours are at Lambda Chi Alpha, Pi Lambda Phi, and...
There has always been a human toll. Entire occupations have vanished. In the early 1900s, there were 238,000 blacksmiths and 109,000 carriage and harness makers.
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WASHINGTON — Barack Obama’s tone of mild exasperation when tutoring the public often makes his pronouncements grating even when they are sensible. As was his recent sugg...
With about two months before the April 15 deadline for filing federal income taxes, many taxpayers are beginning to think about their tax returns — and in many cases the...
WASHINGTON — His secretary of defense says “the world is exploding all over.” His attorney general says that the threat of terror “keeps me up at night.” The world bears...
