Benazir Bhutto's assassination in Pakistan is likely to prompt calls for a wholesale review of U.S. policy toward a country crucial to regional stability and the continu...
If you have any doubts as to whether this presidential campaign season has lasted too long and soured voters on the whole political process, look at the favorable/unfavo...
WASHINGTON — After one year of Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, public approval ratings for Congress have sunk below their level when Republicans were stil...
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has long been the redheaded stepchild of federal agencies — unloved and underfunded. A decade ago, the agency was in the cros...
For those who believe in miracles, there is the legitimate possibility that John McCain could win the Republican presidential nomination. If so, he'll make Bill Clinton'...
It's now official: There is nothing that can't be magically transmuted into a "values issue."
The chief characteristic of a values issue, and its inestimable advantage f...
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Barack Obama has become a one-trick pony. But what a trick it is!
The stump speech he has developed in the closing stages of the pre-Christmas campaig...
Some stories are timeless . . . like the letter an eight-year-old girl wrote 110 years ago to the editor of the New York Sun. Every year, at this season, the Butler Eagl...
WASHINGTON — Floating crosses, love babies and hag photos. We're all tabloid now.
Two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, politics has gotten not just ugly but unseemly and ...
The Federal Reserve took unprecedented action Tuesday to curb predatory lending in the subprime mortgage market as a coming wave of foreclosures threatens the nation's e...
