Budget stories normally draw little interest, and even less with a presidential campaign heating up. But the massive spending bill recently passed by Congress presents P...
The next time House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Leader Harry Reid talk about ending poverty, stopping giveaways for wealthy corporations and finding bipartisan solut...
Three-digit oil has finally arrived. Crude oil prices hit $100 a barrel last week for the first time, briefly trading at a peak of $100.09 Thursday.
Some American motori...
View the New Hampshire polls you see in the final hours before the voting occurs with a large grain of salt.
It's not because the pollsters doing the surveys aren't good...
Americans say they're sick of partisan politics, and some of them really mean it.
In Norman, Okla., and Tallahassee, Fla. — two university towns where football usually m...
The Bush administration recently approved what it called a "significant reduction" in the size of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. The White House didn't disclose spe...
Americans are focused on the presidential primaries, but an election campaign halfway around the world will have enormous impact on their lives.
I refer to elections in ...
When President Bush arrives in Jerusalem next week, he will step into a fledgling peace process already set up to fail. His brief, photo-op visit will likely do little b...
For the New Year, I resolve not to be too judgmental about people.
That may sound like an odd pledge from me. I make my living from judging and writing about the sometim...
MANCHESTER, N.H. — One final reminder: When you're reading the returns from the Iowa caucuses, remember you are viewing them through a double distortion mirror.
The outc...
