This year was always going to be a difficult one for Democrats, as they battle to keep their five-seat majority in the Senate. But in recent months, the political landsc...
If a sentence contains the phrases “New York state” and “Common Core,” chances are that somewhere between the two is the word “botched.” New York and California have tak...
In a world where rental car companies can track the location of their cars at any given moment, where we can turn a home alarm on or off from the seat of an airliner cru...
WASHINGTON — The crisis in Ukraine was produced by two sets of blunders, neither emanating from Washington. The European Union’s vacillations and, most significantly of ...
WASHINGTON — Someone who is determined to disbelieve something can manage to disregard an Everest of evidence for it. So Barack Obama will not temper his enthusiasm for ...
Government spying from Washington has become government spying on Washington and may have escalated into a full constitutional crisis.
That’s how Senate Intelligence Com...
WASHINGTON — It’s a stunning comparison that, in some ways, explains everything about the crisis in Ukraine. Back in 1990, average per-person incomes in Poland and Ukrai...
It has been said that nothing dies harder than a bad idea.
Nearly two decades ago, while I was serving as U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Alaska’s Sens. Frank Murkowski ...
When Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, one of his selling points was the promise of a more modest foreign policy than that of his predecessor. And when Obama won ...
Less than a decade after it started requiring students to write an essay as part of the SAT, the College Board announced last week that it is eliminating that portion of...
