The rites of the graduation are commencing. In gyms, auditoriums and grassy quads, high school and college graduates will be treated, or subjected, to the great traditio...
The greatest threat to American security is something most Americans never think of. President Barack Obama touched on it in his speech to the European people a week ago...
When the Americans defeated the British at Yorktown, the surrendering British forces supposedly played “The World Turned Upside Down.”
The song should be on the soundtra...
After Donald Trump’s “major” foreign policy address, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Republican Bob Corker, announced that he was very impressed,...
To a candidate, selecting a running mate is almost always about trying to win the election. Ordinarily, of course, the campaign that candidates are trying to win is the ...
While covering a news event Wednesday afternoon, a most unsettling realization came over me. It was based not on personal views — just an instinct that comes with decade...
Even before losing four of this week’s five presidential primaries, Bernie Sanders toned down direct criticism of rival Hillary Clinton’s qualifications and judgment. Bu...
The U.S. Congress may be blowing its chance to help bring to an end a painfully long-running saga: the financial implosion of Puerto Rico.
House Speaker Paul Ryan is wor...
Free trade? Catch that thing. Wrap it up. Throw it in the garbage.
That’s the tune of much of the presidential campaign this year and it leaves us wondering what would ...
In 2002, two years before the blockbuster 9/11 Commission report provoked by the events of that day, a bipartisan congressional task force published an 838-page report o...
