WASHINGTON — Why are Republicans playing the Democrats’ game that the “fiscal cliff” is all about taxation?
House Speaker John Boehner already made the pre-emptive conce...
The campaign against genetically engineered foods didn’t disappear with California’s defeat of Proposition 37, which would have required the labeling of most foods conta...
WASHINGTON — As a practical matter, the debate over higher taxes is finished. If there’s an agreement to avoid the “fiscal cliff,” it will almost certainly contain large...
Behind closed doors, negotiators in Washington are working to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, the $500 billion in tax increases and spending cuts set to take effect in...
If only we could hustle President Obama and Congress into a screening room and require repeated viewings of Lincoln.
And if only we could lock ourselves in there as well...
The Big Oil crowd is pumping up a recent prediction that the United States will be the world’s largest petroleum producer before 2020.
That estimate from the Internation...
Between 2007 and 2009, the Federal Housing Administration took on a counter-cyclical role as the real estate market plunged. To help prop up demand, FHA rapidly expanded...
The holiday season is a time to be grateful for what we have and to be compassionate toward those who are hurting. One in seven Americans relies on government assistance...
Four decades ago, the Arab oil embargo consigned Americans to gas lines. Odd-even rationing became routine, and everyone with a passing interest in energy policy heard r...
Washington’s focus on the “fiscal cliff” — a potentially disastrous combination of tax hikes and spending cuts scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1 — has shifted attention...
