Iraq is collapsing as a country. This week’s bombings in Baghdad, killing more than 90 people, were just one more reminder that the place remains deeply unstable and vio...
What has happened to the GOP — and what should be done about it?
Clearly the party is on the precipice of a disaster. But it’s a precipice familiar in the history of Ame...
It might be helpful for Donald Trump’s handlers to look up and archive all the things their candidate has said on controversial issues for playback purposes.
In 2012, Tr...
Can Americans work longer? Or, are we so broken down by our 60s that extending work life would be cruel?
These questions stalk the debate over Social Security and Medic...
It should be obvious to all by now that Donald Trump knows nothing of what he speaks. His disastrous economic ideas are but the latest in a litany of nonsensical proposa...
Paul Ryan has little choice but to endorse Donald Trump — sooner rather than later. To do otherwise probably would cost him Speakership of the House, and might end his p...
Down through all the millennia that mankind has smoked tobacco, no one would have believed — or even imagined — that a battery-powered contraption with no tobacco would ...
You may not like President Obama’s political philosophy or leadership style, but you have to admit that he is one cool president.
Consider his speech at the White House ...
It wasn’t precisely an act of moral courage, but House Speaker Paul Ryan’s comment that he’s not ready to support presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump was at le...
Long-awaited federal rules to keep electronic cigarettes out of the hands of children finally arrived last week, and not a moment too soon. Use of the nicotine delivery ...
