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...
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...
