WASHINGTON — In most movies made to convey dread, the tension flows from uncertainty about what will happen. In "United 93," terror comes from knowing exactly what will ...
Like any addict, the most important step is acceptance.
Repeat after me: "Hi, my name is America, and I'm addicted to oil."
Instead of marijuana or heroin, our choice of...
The latest report from the Social Security trustees is chock-full of numbers and dates, but most people seem to have focused on a single year: 2040.
That's when the syst...
Ossining, N.Y., Monday, 9:17 a.m. Stopped at my local diner for coffee and the papers. The owner served me himself, and he was chatty. "Yeah, we got four people missing ...
The U.S. Senate has a strange definition of what constitutes an "emergency."
President Bush has asked Congress for $92 billion in emergency funding to continue fighting ...
A month ago, the U.N. Security Council tossed Iran another chance to come clean on its nuclear programs. Did anyone actually believe that Iran would? Well, it didn't. Th...
The movie "United 93" depicts what David Beamer, father of United Flight 93 passenger Todd Beamer, calls the first "counterattack" in the war on terror after Sept. 11, 2...
President Bush was once a Texas oilman, albeit not a particularly successful one. He was in the business in the mid-1980s, a bleak period for harvesters of fossil fuels....
A Senate proposal to replace the Federal Emergency Management Agency with a new agency in the Homeland Security Department is unnecessarily complicated, and might not ev...
There are many factors that go into $3 gasoline, and even more political opinions about how we got there. Republicans blame Democrats for blocking more exploration and d...
