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...
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...
