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Since the 1930s, the federal tax on gasoline has been the single greatest source of revenue to pay for America’s highways and mass transit. For every gallon sold, 18.4 c...

WASHINGTON — We now have Timothy Geithner’s 528-page memoir of the financial crisis and its aftermath. Called “Stress Test,” it’s full of fascinating details of a fright...

Sexual harassment and sexual violence complaints are surging on campuses. The Obama administration is pressuring colleges and universities to assure more confidentiality...

The Department of Veterans Affairs’ treatment of former service members remains a national disgrace and a betrayal of veterans, who deserve timely medical care. VA Secre...

On Tuesday, the utter failure of White House efforts on Syria became embarrassingly public. Lakdhar Brahimi, the U.N. special envoy who had brokered Syrian peace talks i...

The publication of a new book on the revelations of NSA snooping by Edward Snowden and the arrival of the one-year anniversary of those disclosures combine to raise a qu...

WASHINGTON — Mass schoolgirl kidnapping in Nigeria — to tweet or not to tweet? Is hashtagging one’s indignation about some outrage abroad an exercise in moral narcissism...

Four-year-old Taylor Dyer died in what authorities say was a drunken-driving car crash last weekend. He was a passenger in an SUV that struck a concrete median on Inters...

As America’s voters careen from one congressional election to the next, each increasingly discouraging, this might be a good opportunity to take a breath and consider wh...

After a harsh winter, it’s time to get out and hit the open road. So what’s with $4-a-gallon gasoline? North American oil production is on the rise, so you might have ex...