As we consider our goals for the New Year, what is more important to American taxpayers: free Viagra or providing essential food, health care and education for our needi...
WASHINGTON — What a year that was — 2005!
It's surely a year that George Bush is glad to see past, since his path politically was mostly downhill from Inauguration Day o...
WASHINGTON — In a season of holiday cheer and giving, congressional conferees have come up with a Grinch-style lump of coal for Americans who don't have a lot of politic...
By BILL FERGUSON
It’s a common practice when the end of a year approaches to take stock and consider what was accomplished over the past year and what might be on the ho...
We are drawn to water, to swimming pools, lakes and oceans. But water is treacherous, too, especially when it is out of sight, off shore, churning with raw power, crushi...
WASHINGTON — When I sat down to review the past year's columns for my annual accounting of errors and misjudgments, I realized that the politicians I cover had set an im...
A British medical journal reported last week that postoperative radiation for breast cancer is more important than doctors had known: It not only prevents local recurren...
By HOLLY SKLAR
The American Dream doesn’t need to go on a diet in the new year. It’s been shrinking for years.
We are becoming a nation of Scrooge-Marts and outsourcers ...
"Don't you know we are at war?"
For four years, President Bush and his team have wielded that question to rebuke critics and to justify their eager expansions of executi...
By ERIC PETERS
WASHINGTON — While regular folks shop for bargains this holiday season, personal injury lawyers are venue shopping — searching for a judge or jurisdiction...
