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...
We live in a vigilant age that triggers the same question after every calamity: Was it a terror act? The passenger train derailment and fatal wreck Tuesday night in Phil...
Soon after she announced that she was running for president, Hillary Rodham Clinton positioned herself as a critic of big money in politics, even suggesting that she mig...
WASHINGTON — The other day, unannounced presidential candidate Jeb Bush told a crowd that he was blessed by not being in the U.S. Senate and followed that up, according ...
WASHINGTON — In the 1950s, during one of his two campaigns as the Democrats’ presidential nominee, Adlai Stevenson was invited to address a gathering of Baptists in Hous...
To judge from the headlines, Congress managed to accomplish the nearly impossible last week by approving a budget, the first joint budget resolution passed since 2009. B...
This week, President Obama will gather kings, emirs and sheiks from the oil-rich monarchies of the Persian Gulf at Camp David for a summit aimed at bolstering the U.S. a...
Common sense tells us — and national security sense implores us — that we must find a way of accurately and apolitically measuring the significance of a years-old tale t...
Key provisions of the Patriot Act, which was passed in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, expire at the end of this month. Congress is debating whether to rene...
The ease of making contributions online has helped Americans become much more generous to other countries, especially when disaster strikes. Since a magnitude 7.8 earthq...
