WASHINGTON — During the 1944 Warsaw uprising, Stalin ordered the advancing Red Army to stop at the outskirts of the city while the Nazis, for 63 days, annihilated the no...
If you are not Catholic, and even if you are, you could be forgiven for not knowing that a remarkable event is unfolding in Rome.
This week, Pope Francis convened an “ex...
The Syrian Kurdish leader’s voice on the telephone on Monday sounded desperate. He told me the Islamic State is on the verge of defeating Syrian Kurds, who have been fig...
American public health officials face two formidable challenges: the possible spread of Ebola and the possible spread of panic about Ebola.
In the days since Dallas medi...
In a speech to the United Nations recently, President Barack Obama said that climate change is a more serious threat than terrorism. So, why aren’t more Americans terrif...
The capital cognoscenti are again engaged in their ritual of fast-thumbing, speed-reading and savoring at least the choicest bits of the latest ex-official’s memoir — th...
WASHINGTON — Julia Pierson’s failure as the first woman director of the Secret Service is symptomatic of a culture that pervades much of the Federal Government. It is si...
The federal Physician Payment Sunshine Act requires health care companies to disclose the payments they make to doctors who use or help to develop their products. This w...
When crops were first introduced that had been engineered to withstand the herbicide glyphosate — better known by the trade name Roundup — the agricultural industry said...
The United States is waging war in Iraq and Syria. We are convinced, unequivocally, that the enemy is the well-armed, crafty and cruel assemblage of antediluvian thugs k...
