Congress is not as stupid as you think.
I realize that is not a high bar; but still, credit must be given when credit is due. Quite often when our duly-elected political...
Edward Snowden is doing his best to avoid falling into the hands of U.S. law enforcement, and he’s not pretending he did nothing illegal. He has admitted disclosing clas...
WASHINGTON — The question of whether Barack Obama’s second term will be a failure was answered in the affirmative before his Berlin debacle, which has recast the questio...
House Republicans revolted against their leaders last week, rejecting a farm bill that would have cost $940 billion over the coming decade. So for the second time in les...
“Secure the border” has become the new “Drill, baby, drill.”
For Republicans who want to live in a fact-free world and are afraid to rile the furthest right members of t...
WASHINGTON — The headlines were immediate: All-women jury chosen for George Zimmerman’s trial.
What is the likelihood you, a man, would face a jury of all women?
What ar...
WASHINGTON — We are now discovering the limits of cheap money.
For more than four years, central banks around the world — led by the Federal Reserve — have aggressively ...
Just when you thought the Legionella scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs’ hospitals in Pittsburgh couldn’t get any worse, it explodes.
As the Trib reported on ...
Last summer, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was received in Egypt with a barrage of rotten tomatoes. Protesters, mostly pro-democracy activists, shouted their r...
America has always been a creative place, partly because the authors of the Constitution wanted it to be. Among the powers they granted Congress was the right “to promot...
