America’s coastal communities got some disturbing news recently when Interior Secretary Sally Jewell pledged to open “vast areas” of the ocean to oil drilling.
Under the...
When a bridge falls, when a water main fails, or when a train crashes, news crews and commentators report on the sorry state of our nation’s infrastructure. Policymakers...
Last year, Americans paid nearly $1.4 trillion in federal individual income taxes — plus sales taxes, fuel taxes, property taxes, excise taxes, you name it. Yet, there’s...
There’s no way around it — Jeb Bush fumbled this one.
It took him three whiffs at a question he should have fully anticipated before he got remotely close to an answer, ...
Regardless of any human error, it didn’t have to happen. That’s the takeaway from the Amtrak 188 catastrophe.
Even if evidence suggests that the engineer caused the trai...
WASHINGTON — A near miss can be a sharp spur, so Rick Santorum wants to say something to those who profess condescending puzzlement about his persistence in pursuing the...
On the screen, one of the Republican Party’s savviest strategists, Kevin Madden, is telling it like it is on immigration reform. He’s talking not really to Sunday’s CNN ...
WASHINGTON — That free trade is advantageous to both sides is the rarest of political propositions — provable, indeed mathematically. David Ricardo did so in 1817. The L...
WASHINGTON — To mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II — Victory in Europe Day occurred on May 8, Victory over Japan Day happens on Aug. 14 — the Census Bu...
California has nearly 39 million people, making it the nation’s most populous state by a fat 12 million. It has 120 members in its legislature.
Texas is No. 2 with nearl...
