It’s not entirely coincidence that the alcohol in your adult beverage and the ethanol in your gas tank are so similar in structure. After all, if one drink was no proble...
WASHINGTON — If you peruse the news on any given day, the farm bill/food stamp debate produces two general impressions: Republicans are heartless turkey thieves; Democra...
It was, as the world has known for almost a year, a horrible, horrible tragedy. Even as the ambulances were arriving on that awful day, it looked like the work of one de...
Last spring, CoverGirl announced a makeup line called the Capitol Collection, a marketing tie-in with the “Hunger Games” film franchise.
The makeup is supposed to draw i...
At a recent Georgetown University symposium, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Laura Bush and John Kerry all urged Americans not to abandon Afghan women after U.S. troops exit nex...
WASHINGTON — It’s only a few years since China was widely regarded as an unstoppable economic colossus. For three decades, its economy grew about 10 percent annually; Ch...
On Thanksgiving Day, Americans everywhere gather with family and friends to recount the joys and blessings of the past year. This day is a time to take stock of the fort...
Thanksgiving Day 1864 was proclaimed by President Abraham Lincoln with these words:
It has pleased Almighty God to prolong our national life another year, defending us w...
Senate Democrats went nuclear Thursday. They blew up a long-standing Senate rule that allowed the minority party to use filibusters to block most presidential appointmen...
Analogies between Secretary of State John F. Kerry’s negotiations with Iran and the negotiations the Reagan administration undertook with the Soviet Union have become co...