In the wake of the terror attacks in Paris, Brussels and beyond, President Barack Obama has recognized the need to accelerate the campaign against the Islamic State befo...
Some lawmakers, politicians and interest groups, particularly those that like to perpetuate self-serving narratives about systemic sexism, say April 12 was a special day...
Give Donald Trump credit for planning ahead. He is preparing to be a sore loser.
Trump’s complaints that he is being undone by a rigged system crafted by a corrupt Repub...
WASHINGTON — Almost everyone agrees that America’s income tax is too complex. Considering this, you might expect that simplifying the income tax would be a slam dunk. Su...
WASHINGTON — There’s something mesmerizing about a billionaire leading in the GOP presidential race whining in public about not being treated fairly.
“It’s unfair. It’s ...
WASHINGTON — How far they’ve come. And I’m not talking about the GOP, whose front-runner representing 37 percent of the Republican electorate has repudiated post-Reagan ...
Popular as he is, Pope Francis cannot seem to win with some people. For conservative Catholics, he goes too far; for liberals, he does not go far enough.
The pope’s rece...
The decision may be disappointing, but it shouldn’t be tough for Carnival Corp., now engulfed in a public-relations nightmare over its maiden cruise to Cuba.
Now that it...
Even the tired cliche about the pot calling the kettle black couldn’t adequately capture the irony when Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, last week accused Supreme Court Ch...
WASHINGTON — Among the world’s major economies, America’s is “the least ugly,” as Adam Posen, head of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, puts it. So it ...