NEW YORK — The world seems very messy these days, which might be an occasion to examine the broad forces producing the turmoil. But in Washington, of course, it becomes ...
WASHINGTON — Israel accepts an Egyptian-proposed Gaza cease-fire; Hamas keeps firing. Hamas deliberately aims rockets at civilians; Israel painstakingly tries to avoid t...
President Barack Obama’s political opponents doubtless won’t acknowledge his stewardship of the economy has been on track, but the June job figures are promising indeed....
Should doctors who are behind on their taxes be tapped to repair the nation’s highway system?
If you answered “what?” or “that sounds like a nonsensical question,” well,...
Hillary Clinton reportedly plans to spend most of the summer in relative seclusion, after a month-long pre-campaign road test promoting her qualifications from being sec...
Football fans need no reminding of the danger the game poses to the brains of players.
There is no undoing the harm to NFL veterans, some 5,000 of whom joined in a class...
We’ll probably learn this week if the U.S. House and Senate intend to live out the AC/DC classic, “Highway to Hell.”
The Highway Trust Fund, the federal government’s pri...
Ethanol manufacturers have long maintained that government subsidies to their industry pay off for consumers in the form of lower gas prices. Not so fast. The Congressio...
The U.S. Supreme Court keeps telling us that corporations are people, but some of these “people” have a curious sense of patriotism.
They enjoy making money in the Unite...
It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. The cream of America’s policy and education establishment came together with unprecedented swiftness around the Common Core educa...