The late Alice Rivlin, a longtime scholar at the Brookings Institution think tank, enjoyed an unusually constructive career.
Over more than four decades, Rivlin — who di...
Here’s a suggestion. How about setting up some high school rifle clubs? Students would bring their own rifles to school, store them with the team coach and, after classe...
Piggybacking on the outpouring of support for the egregiously underpaid U.S. women’s national soccer team, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio talked big...
There’s an important bit of contingency planning that Republicans have neglected to do. Neither in the White House nor on Capitol Hill are they prepared for the possibil...
Ed Sanders was both unique and ordinary. He became, in his own way, a hero just for doing his job.
When Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools integrated in North Carolina, if yo...
While Democrats wade through a marathon of intra-party debates, the national punditocracy is increasingly asking two urgent questions about the impending 2020 presidenti...
Compared with what John A. Boehner and Paul D. Ryan had to deal with, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi really is living the life of puppies and rainbows.
Much is being made in...
Pennsylvania Attorney General Eugene DePasquale is calling for the state to discontinue the Keystone Exams on the grounds that the tests are costly and not federally req...
If you’re thinking of raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, you need maximum compassion, and liberals don’t have it. Promises of more money for lots of people...
A few years ago, I wrote a column about Malala Yousafzi, around the time that the young Pakistani activist was shot in the head by the Taliban. She was targeted for deat...
