WASHINGTON — Most experienced adults acknowledge at some point in their lives that love is a form of temporary insanity.
If only Rudy Giuliani would admit as much. Then ...
Politicians often try to attract votes by obliquely appealing to the voter's self-interest. Vote for me, a candidate might say, and I'll cut taxes or boost school spendi...
I support the State Children's Health Insurance Program, known as SCHIP. This is a program that I want to see re-authorized and expanded. I believe it is past time to en...
Hillary Rodham Clinton is trying to sell herself as a reformer, a new broom that will sweep away the traditional Washington chicanery. Yet her response to a fund-raising...
Anyone looking for true bravery found it last week.
Not in the gasbag-athon between Columbia University's president and Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Not in presid...
In 1633, about the time Galileo was in hot water for writing that the Earth revolves around the sun, French philosopher Rene Descartes made a critical distinction that t...
When the bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, Americans mourned — as we should.
It will take months to determine the cause, but one effect was immediate: Political opportuni...
HANOVER, N.H. — On the flight from Washington to New Hampshire to cover Wednesday night's Democratic presidential debate, I was joined by a Hillary Clinton staffer who w...
WASHINGTON — When you say slavery, most Americans think about what ended with the Civil War. With relief, we think: That was then.
But slavery is, unfortunately, now.
We...
Some thought it curious that President Bush used his moment before the United Nations the other day to talk about Burma rather than Iran. Just hours later, though, we ar...
