At 2:05 p.m. in the White House press briefing room last Tuesday, May 9, the very first words out of Sean Spicer’s mouth were: “Sorry I’m late, wrapping up some business...
Third in the nation. That’s where Pennsylvania ranks in — wait for it — the number of clean water violations reported in the state as of 2015.
It’s not often we feel com...
For the past couple of years, the most important word in American politics has been the worst — “rigged.”
Emanating from slang back in the 17th century, developing into ...
The death on May 8 of Allan Meltzer, 89, deprives the country of one of its most influential economists in the past half-century. A professor at Carnegie Mellon Universi...
In addition to its reign as the newspaper of our nation’s capital, The Washington Post has long enjoyed a sterling reputation for breaking government scandals and exposi...
When Donald Trump was merely a real estate mogul, he exaggerated flamboyantly and reporters considered it charming: He promoted Trump Tower as a 68-story building, even ...
If you needed more reminders that last November continues to haunt the Democratic Party, reporting that surfaced last week on how a multi-million-dollar surplus from Dem...
Scientists and philosophers occasionally contemplate the tiny tolerances that make life on earth possible. Sometimes they refer to our globe’s orbit as the “Goldilocks Z...
Last week I was honored to be included on a panel discussion titled “The Search for Truth in an Age of Fake News.” Two real journalists, a tech entrepreneur, a neuroscie...
Globalization has gotten a bad rap. The Trump White House associates it with all manner of economic evil, especially job loss. The administration has made undoing the da...
