It’s hard to tell which has done more to hurt the initial phase of the Affordable Care Act: continued Republican opposition or the inept rollout of the new law. To many ...
It’s crunchtime. If all goes well — and it appears to have gone well — negotiators in Washington will finalize the details of a deal to reopen the government and avoid a...
The Republicans’ obsession with Obamacare has been variously described as a tactical ploy to preserve the semblance of unity in a divided party or as a fundraising magne...
The Nobel Peace Prize committee blew it on Friday.
It could have electrified the world by giving the prize to Malala Yousafzai, the courageous Pakistani schoolgirl shot ...
The addition of three Nobel laureates — Stanford’s Michael Levitt and Thomas Sudhof and UC Berkeley’s Randy Schekman — to the Bay Area’s long list of winners only enhanc...
Having survived the Civil War, this country should know better than to treat the latest government shutdown as the political equivalent of the Bible’s depiction of Earth...
If you wanted to hear words of sweet conciliation, the White House was the wrong place to go last week.
“We’re not going to pay a ransom for America paying its bills,” P...
America’s elected leaders have spent the past few weeks trashing their public standing on Main Street and abroad, and they don’t seem to care.
President Barack Obama’s a...
WASHINGTON — When the history is written, I suspect the brutal budget battle transfixing the nation will be seen as much more than a spectacular partisan showdown.
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Back in the 1970s, the comedy group Firesign Theater used to perform a sketch featuring huckster named Happy Harry Cox who inveigled money from his followers by warning ...
