As Congress returns to work this week, its agenda is crowded with must-pass legislation. To avoid shutting down the government, lawmakers will have to vote for new spend...
With President Trump pledging more troops and certain victory, this may be a good time to remember why this nation went to war in Afghanistan 16 years ago. It could be h...
Congress needs to put tax reform front and center this fall, and for a very good reason: The federal government spends and taxes too much.
The problem goes even deeper t...
It has been just seven months since embattled President Hillary Clinton was sworn into office. It feels like seven years.
Clinton may have failed to electrify her party’...
President Donald Trump has taken a monumentally bad idea and made it worse by shrouding it in secrecy.
The president should let go of his misguided notion that reducing ...
It’s hard to find good help these days, at least if you’re President Donald Trump.
People who work for the executive branch — people he’s appointed — feel free to critic...
“Arma virumque cano” is the first full sentence I learned in Latin. It’s the opening line to Virgil’s “Aeneid” and means “I sing of arms and the man.”
Clearly, I’m not V...
Ordinary citizens with extraordinary community spirit have been a bright light amid the dark clouds and devastation wreaked by Hurricane Harvey in Texas. “Mattress Mack,...
China may be an even bigger economic deal than we thought. Almost everyone knows that, in the past three decades, China has gone from a huge and poor nation to the world...
This was the week the real America reintroduced itself to the rest of the world.
All around the planet, people saw how ordinary Americans live and get by on the streets ...
