“For several years now, this town has been consumed by a rancorous argument over the proper size of the federal government. It’s an important debate.”
— President Obama’...
WASHINGTON — Someone you probably are not familiar with has filed a suit you probably have not heard about concerning a four-word phrase you should know about. The suit ...
Last weekend marked the third anniversary of the Tahrir Square revolt in Egypt.
It’s hard to recall the incredible exhilaration of those days, which I witnessed firsthan...
An advisory committee to the federal government has promised to lead an effort to create national standards for newborn screening in hospitals around the country, but th...
The most important person in the U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations right now may be Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader from Searchlight, Nev.
Two weeks ago, President O...
On a trip last month to the Turkish-Syrian border, I met an impressive young Syrian opposition journalist named Adnan Hadad, who had just fled Aleppo because he was bein...
Chickens and eggs have provoked a controversy in Congress over what comes first, interstate commerce rules or state laws. According to Rep. Steve King, a Republican from...
SEATTLE — Sometimes sea changes come so slowly that when they finally arrive, they barely make it into the news.
So it was the other day when President Obama, in a magaz...
Pennsylvania Republicans’ election-rigging attempt famously failed to deliver the Keystone State to Mitt Romney in 2012.
Since then, proponents of the voter ID law mostl...
“What to do with the goat herders?”
That’s the moral and ethical question that lingered long after readers closed the cover on Marcus Luttrell’s 2007 best-seller, “Lone ...