WASHINGTON — Ramadi falls. The Iraqi army flees. The great 60-nation anti-Islamic State coalition so grandly proclaimed by the Obama administration is nowhere to be seen...
The trucking industry has been making special deliveries in Washington, spending millions of dollars on lobbyists and in congressional campaign contributions in a new pu...
On May 23, 2003, I attended the Baghdad news conference at which the U.S. viceroy, Paul Bremer, announced he was dissolving the Iraqi army.
I thought of that day when I ...
There’s always been something sort of milestone-ish about 20 years. It’s accepted in most places as the standard to measure success in employment (20 years with the same...
The Amtrak crash outside of Philadelphia was an invitation for practically every politician in the Northeast and every transit expert in America to complain about lack o...
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...
