During his two terms as a Republican senator from Nebraska, Chuck Hagel certainly distinguished himself as an outspoken, independent thinker. Instead of relying on parti...
WASHINGTON — One fateful question for 2013 is this: What happens to globalization? For decades, growing volumes of cross-border trade and money flows have fueled strong ...
With the fiscal cliff surmounted, at least temporarily, a new Congress sworn in and Republicans licking their self-inflicted wounds, it is tempting to theorize that a ne...
The University of Notre Dame has a lot to be proud of. In the last U.S. News and World Report listing, it ranked 17th among national universities. Its law school is rank...
Spare a little sympathy, if you can, for John A. Boehner of Ohio, speaker of the House of Representatives.
On paper, he’s the most powerful Republican in the land. In pr...
Friday, the Labor Department reported the economy added 155,000 jobs in December — substantially less than is needed to pull unemployment down to acceptable levels.
The ...
WASHINGTON — Symbolic of the debate we’re not having about government’s size and role — the essence of the deficit problem — is the future of farm subsidies. Running $10...
Our divided, gridlocked political system seems incapable of resolving the government’s long-term deficit problem.
Sometimes members of Congress sound like they’re still ...
Congress avoided the cliff, but it did not get off the mountain. That is the problem.
The mountain is the budget deficit. The country needs to get down the mountain. Las...
WASHINGTON — The rout was complete, the retreat disorderly. President Obama got his tax hikes — naked of spending cuts — passed by the ostensibly Republican House of Rep...
