When a major catastrophe strikes a region, like Hurricane Katrina or the Sept. 11 attacks, Americans don't hesitate to give. They give money. They give their time, blood...
WASHINGTON — The much ado about Barack Obama's decision not to wear an American flag lapel pin was, well, symbolic.
To follow the debate that followed the headline that ...
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is one of the most loathsome modern American politicians, given her barely disguised support for massive government programs, her grating s...
Going into the critical final months before presidential primary season, the top question on the minds of politicos is: Can she be stopped?
Hillary Rodham Clinton's bril...
In Burma, an ominous silence has fallen. The ruling military junta has been answering the peaceful protests of dissident monks with beatings, arrests and untold killings...
WASHINGTON — The day had been full of ominous warnings. Polls showed the Republicans on the losing side of almost every issue and the 2008 presidential race — and now th...
"Were the expense of war to be defrayed always by a revenue raised within the year . . . wars would in general be more speedily concluded, and less wantonly underta...
WASHINGTON — Fifty years ago the past week, America was shaken out of technological complacency by a beeping 180-pound aluminum ball orbiting overhead. Sputnik was a sho...
Fifty years ago this week, the Space Age began.
The Russians launched it, sending "Sputnik" and the Cold War into orbit on Oct. 4, 1957. I celebrated by seeing "In the S...
The latest Washington Post-ABC News poll found that seven in 10 Americans support the new bill to increase the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) by $35 b...
