WASHINGTON — We can learn from Europe about job creation, but many Americans may reject the underlying lesson. It is: If you price labor too high businesses will slow or...
NEW YORK — While we have been watching the Islamic State and discussing Iran, something much bigger is happening in the world. We are witnessing a historic fall in the p...
Donald Trump’s rise in the polls is inextricably linked to the issue of immigration.
He probably wouldn’t have achieved liftoff without it, and now that his campaign has...
The vast majority of smokers start before they turn 21. That’s not surprising. Most adults at age 30 or 40 wouldn’t dream of lighting up. They are better able to weigh t...
The past met the future this week, when three aging Marines watched the raising of the American flag over the U.S. Embassy in Havana where they had lowered it some 54 ye...
WASHINGTON — We could wearily shrug, say “Oh, well,” and economize waste and annoyance by just building the proposed $142 million Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial. But long...
The vast right-wing conspiracy is at it again, Hillary Clinton says. The whole kerfuffle over her emails is driven not by her actions, she declares, but by opponents try...
If the Food and Drug Administration can’t regulate how pharmaceutical companies market their drugs to doctors, its ability to protect the public will be severely diminis...
If you believe the political discussion, from left and right, the U.S. economy is in dreadful shape, beset by rampant joblessness, no growth and too much debt.
Actually,...
NFL quarterbacks fear Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison. So should participation trophies, the ubiquitous trinkets given to children for merely showing up an...
