President Barack Obama has a big decision to make about this nation’s economic future. The call is an easy one, and it’s long overdue.
The president should approve the K...
Two weeks ago, on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq war, I wrote a column that laid out the losers in the conflict. I argued there were still no clear winners.
One reader...
For the past several years, the focus on natural gas has been about science — geology, biology and chemistry. Pennsylvanians have learned how hydraulic fracturing, or fr...
Congress has taken an overdue but encouraging step toward harmonizing sales-tax enforcement between online and brick-and-mortar retail sales.
As part of the ongoing budg...
Now that the budget “sequester” is in effect, Congress is shifting its attention to entitlement reform. There’s simply no way to achieve long-term reductions in federal ...
Even in this social media/Internet age, let’s agree that some national security functions should remain secret. A tweet alerting a terrorist target to tomorrow’s attack,...
WASHINGTON — Americans have a love-hate relationship with foreign trade. In the marketplace, we’re enthusiasts. During 2012, we scarfed up $2.3 trillion of imports: cars...
WASHINGTON — As Washington debates how to fix America’s broken immigration system, the time has come for realistic solutions that will both strengthen national security ...
In his opinions on abortion and gay rights, Justice Antonin Scalia has taken an offensively narrow view of the Constitution’s guarantees of due process and equal protect...
Military intervention in the Muslim world seems to bring the United States nothing but grief. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya: None looks much like a success story now.
Yet the...
