As the old adage has it, there are two processes that one should never observe closely—the making of sausage and the making of laws. Pennsylvanians recently have had a c...
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The OPEC oil embargo of 1973-74 inspired Congress to promulgate "CAFE" or Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards for passenger cars and light truck...
"The key to turning (Anbar) around was the shift in allegiance by tribal sheiks. But the sheiks turned only after a prolonged offensive by American and Iraqi forces,...
WASHINGTON — Time was, Riley Webster Lugar, a Hoosier farmer, vociferously disapproved of the New Deal policy of killing baby pigs to control supply in the hope of raisi...
The cascade of canceled flights that hit Northwest Airlines customers during the last week in June is part of a larger set of problems in an air travel system that is st...
Six months ago, I booked flights for our family's summer vacation. I endured the telephone obstacle course, because the destination sounded ideal.
London.
A lot has chan...
WASHINGTON — Where there's a terrorist, there's a business opportunity.
If you're new to that concept, no worries. There's still plenty of money to be made in the homela...
Heroism comes in many forms. To be sure, courage is demonstrated through feats of great physical risk on and off the battlefield. But to me, the greatest heroes of the m...
It burbles and gurgles, streams and swirls, flows and floods. That's what water does, and there's no mystery in it.
Here's the mystery: Why did we decide it was OK to pa...
WASHINGTON — Hours after the immigration reform bill he had championed went down to defeat, Sen. John McCain told me what he thought would happen next. "You will see the...
