In his State of the Union address, President Bush promised "unprecedented" reform of congressional earmarking. That's the practice through which members of Congress snea...
America's housing meltdown has spawned an epidemic of home foreclosures and job losses. It has dealt huge hits to the bottom lines of big homebuilders and Wall Street ba...
The high point of John Edwards' campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination may have come in a Myrtle Beach, S.C., debate, when he refereed the back-and-forth be...
WASHINGTON — Legacy? What legacy?
There was general amazement when (the now-muzzled) Bill Clinton did his red-faced, attack-dog, race-baiting performance in South Caroli...
WASHINGTON — Heading into Tuesday's unprecedented day of voting in two dozen states, a degree of order is finally emerging in the dramatic races for the presidential nom...
WASHINGTON — Americans finally have narrowed the presidential race to two front-runners: John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.
Too bad they're both busy chatting up Guinevere ...
In Washington, the most fundamental debate in dealing with any problem is not over whether to do X or do Y. It's whether to do something as opposed to doing nothing. Not...
WASHINGTON — In 1976, Fred Harris — a populist precursor of this year's version of John Edwards, championed "the little people." When he finished fourth with just 10.8 p...
A new study on obesity among low-income children highlights a perplexing problem that requires action by entire communities.
Researchers at Iowa State University tested ...
It's the perfect crime, so big and so reeking of establishment that few recognize the inherent criminality, but the results are the same as if some street thug held us a...
