WASHINGTON — The Obamacare/shutdown battle has spawned myriad myths. The most egregious concern the substance of the fight, the identity of the perpetrators and the orig...
Last week, House Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, and his Republicans declared that they had two clear goals in this fall’s battle over federal spending: no government s...
Congress permitted a partial shutdown of the federal government on Tuesday and Wall Street shrugged. The stock market finished the day a tad higher. The furlough of 800,...
WASHINGTON — If you scan the websites of various tea party groups and their allies, you will find plenty of references to “less government,” “lower taxes,” “fiscal respo...
Americans awoke Tuesday to the fact that nearly half the federal government has shut down, and to a certainty that one-sixth of the U.S. economy will be profoundly alter...
Disagreement over whether to raise the debt ceiling is an old story in Washington. What’s new is the inability of leaders of both parties to amicably avert such a crisis...
Some day soon — we can only hope — Congress will work seriously on the nation’s long-term budget dilemma.
At some point — you’d think — these elected leaders would tire ...
“To the victors belong the spoils.”
— Senator William L. Marcy of New York, 1786-1857, arguing why victorious political parties deserve government jobs.
WASHINGTON — We ...
Whenever a mass shooting occurs, such as the attack Sept. 16 at the Navy Yard in Washington, national attention quickly turns to issues of gun control and greater restri...
When President Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke at the United Nations on Tuesday, each used a phrase that is key to any nuclear deal.
“The age of zero-su...
