They are running to America, these thousands of children from Central America, not to sell drugs or steal or any of the other things some in the United States assume, wr...
The Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster should have been a wake-up call for Vladimir Putin. It wasn’t.
Instead of decreasing aid for pro-Russian separatists who almost ...
America’s effort to use our prisons to stem the illegal drug problem has largely failed.
Incarceration of drug offenders has seen prison and jail populations skyrocket, ...
WASHINGTON — The boys and girls of Congress are returning from summer camp — er, Capitol Hill — to their real homes where they will 1) raise money and plead to be return...
It’s a chaotic world out there. But we’d better get used to it; this may be the new normal.
The Middle East is in flames, not only Gaza but Syria, Iraq and Libya as well...
The nation’s retreat from a maniacal and misguided mission to arrest and imprison our way out of our illegal drug problem has taken another important step.
A federal com...
In a rare display of compromise, Senate and House negotiators Tuesday agreed to a $17 billion bill to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs. The bill is expected to ...
“The Great War” and “The war to end all war” proved to be neither. The conflict that would bleed to death some of Earth’s proudest empires — while killing 16.5 million s...
Quick quiz: Which potential 2016 presidential candidate had this to say about federal anti-poverty programs last week?.
“What do we want? A healthy economy — and a big p...
On my refrigerator door I keep a photo of an exceptional Palestinian woman who ran kindergartens in Gaza in the 1990s for the Philly-based American Friends Service Commi...
