Nuclear waste storage casks at the Kewaunee nuclear power plant on the Lake Michigan shoreline serve as a potent reminder of a national failure: the inability to come up...
Fanning the firestorm over Common Core State Standards is the fear that by adopting common standards, states are signing onto a national curriculum and thus undermining ...
“So sue me.”
— President Barack Obama, complaining about GOP leaders
We’re not sure who would be spurred into action by the hectoring lectures recently from the pre...
This U.S. Supreme Court session has been tough on American women.
A couple of weeks ago the court struck down laws requiring buffer zones for protesters around Planned P...
WASHINGTON — Perhaps, like mine, your inbox is being flooded with emails from Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Michelle Obama.
President Obama usually says “hey” or “Ann” or ...
Pennsylvania was one of eight states recently recognized for making progress in reducing the number of inmates who were back in state prisons within three years of relea...
WASHINGTON — July 4th, for me, is one of those special American holidays that are celebrations not of religion, ethnicity or sect but rather of freedom and of America’s ...
Given the multitude of problems facing the United States, it’s appalling to see prominent members of Congress focusing on the U.S. Export-Import Bank as a target of oppo...
WASHINGTON — I am reading historian Gordon Wood’s splendid “Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815.” It is an ideal companion for this July 4th we...
MEMO TO: Veterans Affairs Secretary-designate Robert A. McDonald
RE: The VA’s crisis is even worse than you think!
Your good news is that the White House, Congress and D...
