Among prospective Republican presidential candidates, Rep. Paul Ryan is unique. He puts policy ahead of politics.
That’s not to say the 2012 Republican vice presidential...
Burger King, corporate deserter?
That’s what President Barack Obama would call the fast-food giant now that it’s buying Tim Hortons Inc., the Canadian coffee and doughnu...
WASHINGTON — The Census Bureau released a report the other day on Americans’ wealth that seemed full of bad news. Middle-class wealth was down, and inequality — the gap ...
White House staffers are hard at work deliberating about what should go into the executive order the president is expected to issue after Labor Day: his do-it-yourself, ...
The funeral of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old African-American shot dead by a white police officer on Aug. 9, grabbed the nation’s attention not because of the attendanc...
How do you deal with a hideous terrorist group that has morphed into a Mideast state with a huge war chest and an aggressive army — and beheads an American journalist?
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Real bravery is knowing that you’re risking your life for a worthy cause but doing it anyway.
Soldiers and police officers often do that. As two global stories — the Ebo...
By now, most people have seen friends or celebrities pour buckets of ice water over their heads as part of the “ice bucket challenge” for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ...
The events that have recently overtaken Ferguson, Mo., have exposed much more than just the vestiges of racial distrust and strained law enforcement-citizen relationship...
Americans awoke Wednesday to a gruesome video, showing an Islamic State executioner beheading James Foley, an American. A grim President Barack Obama interrupted his vac...
