WASHINGTON — Viewed from Washington, which often is the last to learn about important developments, opposition to the Common Core State Standards Initiative still seems ...
Democrats in Congress are making a play to shore up extended assistance for 1.3 million long-term unemployed in this election year, though it’s hard to be enthusiastic a...
WASHINGTON — As we evaluate the efficacy of the War on Poverty, a single, unquantifiable factor stubbornly demands attention: luck.
When it comes to the fortunes of the ...
Judiciously cutting cost-of-living increases in military pensions is the sort of tough budgeting Congress must do if it’s going to responsibly restrain government spendi...
The booming U.S. energy industry is on pace to produce more oil than Saudi Arabia by next year, but it can’t sell a drop of that crude overseas.
The United States has ba...
In 1975, Nebraska Sen. Roman Hruska warned a congressional hearing that college football was in mortal danger. The threat came from Title IX, the 1972 measure that outla...
Congress is finally grappling with an issue it should have dealt with before members rushed out on Christmas vacation: extending unemployment benefits. There is bipartis...
WASHINGTON — We are awash in retrospectives of the “War on Poverty,” launched 50 years ago this month by Lyndon Johnson. A furious debate has developed between those (mo...
Is Edward Snowden a whistle-blower or a traitor?
Debate over the renegade computer technician who leaked thousands of secret National Security Agency documents is too of...
Chris Christie is a guy you want to like, sometimes despite himself. He’s just made that a lot harder to do.
Take him at his word that he knew nothing about the arrogant...
