WASHINGTON — Is there anything more depressing than yet another promise of energy independence in yet another State of the Union address? By my count, 24 of the 34 State...
Why did China shoot down an aging weather satellite with a ballistic missile? And why has its government stayed silent about the incident for nearly two weeks?
These are...
WASHINGTON — Despite the raging controversy over Iraq military policy, President Bush's plea for bipartisan cooperation on the domestic agenda has a chance of success in...
In his State of the Union speech, President Bush tried with rhetoric to acknowledge the changed politics in Washington. But his agenda offers more of the same ineffectiv...
Whether you loathe him or love him, on Tuesday night you saw a humbled president stand before his nation. For him personally, the State of the Union is largely . . . unr...
There have been four crises in George W. Bush's life, the kind that we all run into at some point and that determine the course of our lives. However we come to them, we...
Here is a wise warning against get-rich-quick schemes: "If something seems too good to be true, it probably is." So don't give a fast-talking stranger your money when he...
WASHINGTON — There's an old story, perhaps apocryphal, about how John F. Kennedy, at the tender political age of 42, stood on the Senate floor and beheld his worthy Demo...
It may be too soon to declare a trend after a two-year decline in cancer deaths. It's a good sign, however, that we are going the right way in diagnosis, treatment and p...
WASHINGTON — The change of command in Iraq offers an opportunity to move past the divisive domestic debate over the deployment of more troops to Baghdad, and instead put...