Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald once scribbled "there are no second acts in American lives." He obviously never witnessed the P.R. value of a rehab stint.
In fact, it couldn'...
WASHINGTON — It is hard to say who looked worse in the Senate's impasse on immigration legislation — Democrats or Republicans — but the responsibility for reviving that ...
So far as we know, there is no concerted effort to prevent couples from discarding unused embryos they've stored in a fertilization clinic's freezer. Yet letting those s...
JERUSALEM — With prospects for peace talks with the Palestinians looking dim, the talk of this town is whether Israel should start talks with the Syrian regime.
Israel's...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — I should have known better.
In 2005, I published a book about teen depression. I wanted to write a thoroughly engaging portrait of a family (my own) i...
Given the chaos Over There, my sense of pessimism about Iraq, Iran and the entire Middle East has been growing. We seem bunkered, stuck and with no good options. War has...
WASHINGTON — Years ago, when campaigns were drowning in political rhetoric on the crime issue, I got the Washington Post to reassign me temporarily to the District of Co...
A few years ago, the National Academy of Engineering named "electrification" as the greatest engineering achievement of the 20th century. And indeed, it's hard to overst...
The bribery case against Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., highlights, yet again, the failure of Congress to police its own members in any meaningful way.
The Justice Depar...
WASHINGTON — Early in George W. Bush's presidency, liberal critics said: The economy is not growing. Which was true. He inherited the debris of the 1990s' irrational exu...
