NEW YORK — It turns out that Republicans in Washington are united on one issue — their hatred of Rand Paul. John McCain says that he is “the worst possible candidate . ....
State legislatures across the country are legalizing medical marijuana, but the nation’s physicians aren’t requesting these laws.
The American Academy of Pediatrics and...
On the morning after Bernie Sanders unveiled his presidential candidacy along the windswept shores of Lake Champlain, the pundits on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” were speculati...
The Obama administration recently announced the first major federal regulation of hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, to take effect in June.
Fracking has be...
WASHINGTON — I rarely do follow-up columns. I’m averaging one every 10 years. And while my last such exercise resulted in a written apology from the White House (for acc...
The federal government has been offering subsidies to help the poor afford phone service since the court-ordered breakup of the Ma Bell system in the mid-1980s. Now the ...
We’ve been going through graduation season, that time of year when students at colleges and universities are finally saying goodbye to all of that — the crushing tuition...
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina got a toehold on the running board of the Republican presidential clown car this week, making 15 GOP candidates who are in or serio...
When the giant retailer Wal-Mart recently announced that it would ask all suppliers of fresh and frozen meat, deli, dairy and egg products to its Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club...
WASHINGTON — Was the Federal Reserve’s massive bond-buying program an engine of economic inequality? It’s easy to think so. The Fed bought more than $3 trillion of U.S. ...
