Individually, the concrete steps President Obama announced Friday toward reforming the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs were modest. Taken together, thou...
The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee’s bipartisan report on the deadly attack in Benghazi makes it clear that the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and thr...
Lying by and about politicians is a regrettable and probably permanent feature of American democracy. But should it also be a criminal offense? The Supreme Court has agr...
WASHINGTON — Everybody’s doing it — confessing their youthful, pot-smoking ways — so here goes.
I don’t remember.
Kidding, kidding. Anyone over 30 recognizes the old ada...
When my wife informed me that Target had been the target of a data breach during the holiday season and we might be among the 164 gazillion people affected, my instincti...
Recently I found myself in the intensive-care unit perched above a 91-year-old man plunging a large needle into the side of his neck to place a catheter into his jugular...
When recent headlines roared that Fallujah had fallen to al-Qaida, the American public became mildly interested, recalling U.S. troops’ 2004 fight for control of the cit...
WASHINGTON — Here in your nation’s capital, things are not always what they seem.
There is great excitement that an actual “budget” has been hammered out in Congress, av...
WASHINGTON — By early 2011, writes former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, he had concluded that President Obama “doesn’t believe in his own Afghanistan strategy, and doe...
During World War II, President Harry Truman made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan, and he said he never had any regrets. When an anguished J. Robert Oppenheime...
