It has been 25 years since Ronald Reagan declared war on the federal government, and five since President Bush and the extremist neo-conservatives took power intending t...
WASHINGTON —If Andrew Young has his way, never again will we have a Tuesday election. The former mayor of Atlanta and ambassador to the United Nations wants to switch th...
Today, many seniors rely on prescription drug medicines to stay healthy and fight both short-term and long-term ailments. As drug costs continue to skyrocket, the expens...
By JOHN LESHY
A proposal quietly working its way through Congress could spark a fire sale of public lands, turning back the clock on a law that’s already stuck in 1872. ...
In the wake of high gasoline prices and high oil company profits, House Speaker Dennis Hastert demands that oil companies explain why they are making so much money and w...
Ideas that are attractive on paper sometimes turn out not to be worth the risks in the real world. That’s because the premise on which the proposals are based is badly f...
President Bush, perhaps the most physically fit president of the past century, took two steps toward improving the nation's health Tuesday.
The president outlined a $7.1...
The bleak future and the precarious present for Wal-Mart workers was nicely summarized in a memo to the company's Board of Directors that was made public last week. Writ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A year after the close Ohio vote gave President Bush his second term in the White House, I came back to the capital of this battleground state last week...
WASHINGTON — Pop quiz: Which of the following abortion regulations is more restrictive, more burdensome, more likely to lead more women to forgo abortion?
(a) Requiring ...