The very term — storm chaser — suggests thrill and adventure. It conjures images of swashbuckling weather junkies who tempt fate in pursuit of dramatic video or close en...
Congress is again debating what to do about interest rates for federal student loans, which are set to double July 1, to 6.8 percent. Several proposed solutions are bein...
Devastating storms like Sandy last fall are increasing in number, and unemployment remains dangerously high. Hurricanes and unemployment are parts of two different, dang...
The United States has about 180 B61 gravity nuclear bombs based in Europe. They are the detritus of the cold war, tactical weapons deployed in Belgium, Germany, Italy, t...
The “tea party” is back and is brewing trouble for the Republican establishment.
After the GOP debacle in the 2012 election, when Republicans not only failed to win the ...
WASHINGTON — Let me admit up front: I am a Paul Volcker fan. As everyone should know, Volcker became chairman of the Federal Reserve in 1979 when double-digit inflation ...
If there is anyone at the Pentagon or in Congress who didn’t see sexual assaults in the military as an urgent problem, the past few days should make things crystal clear...
Congress is once again taking up the farm bill — and continuing to treat agriculture like it was 1933, not 2013. The result: billions of taxpayer dollars going to waste....
The civil war in Syria is heading in the wrong direction. In the past year, rebels had won control of big slices of territory, including much of the country’s largest ci...
“This war, like all wars, must end. That’s what history advises ...”
— Barack Obama, May 23
WASHINGTON — Nice thought. But much as Obama would like to close his eyes, cl...
