Discordant notes from the Obama administration last week were widely interpreted as a collision between a war-weary president and a gung-ho military. And it was easy to ...
Anti-climate-change marchers took to the streets of Manhattan, N.Y., in the hundreds of thousands over the weekend to demand international action to fight global warming...
The White House’s latest target for “executive authority” is the scheme that allows American companies to establish a corporate headquarters in another country to reduce...
A recent projection of the West Africa Ebola outbreak is that it now may take 12 to 18 months to control and will infect 100,000 people. President Obama announced the de...
America’s manned space program, in suspended animation for three years, was stirring last week. That’s promising for the program and the nation.
But Congress must make s...
Americans tend to choose presidents who differ from their predecessors, regardless of whether they come from different parties or from the same party.
That’s readily evi...
Apart from outright denial, our options for thinking about climate change are limited, ranging from resignation and complacency at one end to the robustly apocalyptic at...
During the past few weeks, two sets of initials have dominated the news — ISIL and NFL — and the casual listener would be hard-pressed to decide which is more odious.
It...
Whether intentional or not, President Barack Obama sent an unmistakable message Tuesday: I may not be prepared to put boots on the ground to stop the Islamic State, but ...
When President Barack Obama began to be dogged by endless replays of his “If you like your health care, you can keep it” sound bite, his loyalists insisted the president...
