In 1996, by a 50-49 vote, the U.S. Senate defeated a bill outlawing job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Last week, in a step that dramatized how much ...
The Affordable Care Act was supposed to be a great advance in fostering access to medical insurance. It would contain costs, guarantee coverage, simplify consumer shoppi...
WASHINGTON — For President Obama, the one “must read” from the latest Sunday papers is an essay in The Washington Post by Jon Kingsdale, who ran the health exchange for ...
The airline industry, after suffering years of losses and corporate bankruptcies, is again financially healthy. Mergers among the larger companies have brought prosperit...
WASHINGTON — In spite of everything — the GOP’s internal scrimmages, the government shutdown, the party’s transparent attempts to derail Obamacare — Republicans keep get...
World Diabetes Day is Nov. 14, and we urgently need to address this plague right here at home.
Diabetes is a major public health problem — an epidemic — in the United St...
Allegations that a pro football player who quit his team was a victim of bullying have ignited a broader discussion of the role of violence in American society.
It’s a g...
It seems the height of irony, maybe even hypocrisy, to tell a group of veterans they can’t pray at a Veterans Day presentation.
Yet, that’s what happened Monday at an el...
WASHINGTON — President Obama is no lip-biting, tear-streaking, chin-trembling apologist.
When he said he was sorry for the health care mess-up in an interview with NBC’s...
Only weeks ago, the administration was touting an international agreement to rid Syria of its chemical weapons as a diplomatic triumph. U.S. officials predicted the deal...
