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WASHINGTON — By now, it must be obvious to almost everyone that the federal debt ceiling has outlived whatever usefulness it once had. It does not discipline government ...

Anyone who owns a car, motorcycle or plane must register it with authorities so they can be found and held accountable if they crash into someone or something. Soon the...

WASHINGTON — Guess who just popped up in the Kremlin? Bashar al-Assad, Syrian dictator and destroyer, now Vladimir Putin’s newest pet. After four years holed up in Dama...

Say this much for Russian President Vladimir Putin: He knows the U.S. and the world will take him seriously only if they have no choice. This is the logic behind his mil...

Canada wants change. Voters have pushed Stephen Harper’s Conservatives out and, for the first time since the election of 2000, have given the centrist Liberal Party, led...

Let’s tear our attention away from Donald Trump, if only for a moment, to check in on a psychodrama unfolding way downfield in the Republican presidential race. I’m talk...

If you ever wondered what the Pennsylvania Board of Education does, the answer is ... not much. Not much at all, according to a critical report by Auditor General Eugene...

If the House Republicans’ Benghazi investigation craters after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s testimony this week, the chamber’s right-wing caucus has a seq...

Science works through status quo challenges, through checking and rechecking, through producing evidence to counter other evidence and constantly arriving at reconsidere...

Scandinavia is the American left’s Shangri-La. It is the land of social democracy and of all good things. It is the answer to any objection that new welfare benefits can...