NEW YORK — Now that U.S. intelligence officials believe North Korea was behind the cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, the discussion has moved away finally from...
Candidate Barack Obama said that, as president, he would talk to anti-American dictators without precondition. He didn’t mention that he would also give them historic po...
Two recent events have cast some doubt about the seemingly bright future of fracking in various parts of the country. The first has to do with a few voter-driven efforts...
Two years ago, a Taliban gunman boarded a school bus in Pakistan and fired a shot that outraged the world. He seriously wounded 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai. She recover...
WASHINGTON — The Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee issued a fascinating and largely overlooked report the other day highlighting how little Congress and the White...
U.S. health care spending has never grown as slowly as it did last year.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was in the Oval Office when the U.S. government began recording health-care...
Gov.-elect Tom Wolf is setting the groundwork for an administration he vows will be financially transparent.
Wolf says he won’t accept a salary or live in the governor’s...
Life is full of unpleasant events and lousy surprises, and many of them are beyond remedy. Most people learn that, often, you just have to suck it up and move on. You ca...
When gas prices soar, Americans wail. Inevitably Congress launches an “investigation” and discovers-over and over again that by and large prices are the result of market...
The trillion-dollar spending bill that the House of Representatives passed last week had something for everyone to hate. But it was still a step, however awkward, toward...