The Congressional Budget Office issued a sobering report this week that projected how many people will choose to work less because of the effects of the Affordable Care ...
WASHINGTON — Swedish researchers report that antioxidants make cancers worse in mice. It’s already known that the antioxidant beta-carotene exacerbates lung cancers in h...
In 1968, the federal minimum wage increased from $1.40 an hour to $1.60. Minimum-wage workers have not had it so good ever since.
In today’s dollars, that hourly pay amo...
The conventional wisdom is that this fall’s congressional election will be all about Obamacare. Republicans, it’s argued, will try to expand their majority in the House ...
CLEARWATER, Fla. — Because it is this year’s first federal election, attention must be paid to the March 11 voting to fill the congressional seat vacated by the death in...
After all the ink that’s been spilled lamenting congressional dysfunction in the last couple of years, the impending passage of the $956 billion farm bill has us yearnin...
For all of my critics who have wondered when I would ever disagree with, challenge or outright defy U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, this might be your day.
Then, agai...
The State Department is probably right to conclude, as it did Friday, that the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline project would have a negligible effect on climate change...
For those who think the failures of the Arab Spring prove the Mideast is unsuited to democracy, Jordan’s Marwan Muasher begs to differ.
A scholar and statesman who’s lon...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s rebuke of U.S. and NATO forces as the principal cause of civilian casualties in his country understandably outraged American officials, w...
