WASHINGTON — Call it the $2.8 trillion enigma. That’s what Americans spent on health care in 2012. The good news is that health spending slowed unexpectedly for the four...
It is time to declare war on poverty again.
Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson said in his State of the Union address: “This administration today, here and now, d...
Colorado took an extraordinary step last week when, on Jan. 1, it implemented a law that legalizes the sale of marijuana for recreational use. The state of Washington is...
WASHINGTON — In politics, it’s all in how you say things.
George Orwell knew what he was talking about when he described political language as “designed to make lies sou...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed reducing the amount of ethanol and other biofuels that must be mixed into the nation’s fuel supply. Fuel blenders w...
As the problems of the Affordable Care Act become increasingly apparent, it also has become clear that we need new ways of ensuring access to health care for all America...
The sixth year of a two-term presidency is rarely kind.
The public’s initial romance with the president has faded. The brief momentum he thought he earned by winning re-...
School choice advocates cheered last month when the U.S. Department of Justice dropped its bid to halt Louisiana’s tuition voucher program, but this battle isn’t over. T...
Uncle Sam has a chance to make one of the good-news stories of 2013 even better next year. Thanks to the extraction technique known as fracking, the United States is pro...
WASHINGTON — There is more than a little hypocrisy to the outcry that the government, through the National Security Agency (NSA), is systematically destroying Americans’...
