CAIRO, Egypt — The sudden resignation of David Petraeus as CIA director over an affair makes me very sad, and quite angry. There’s something wrong with a political syste...
NEW ORLEANS — It is tempting, oh so tempting, to unleash the snark as the script unfolds: Real Housewives of Tampa. Or is it Real Generals of Kabul?
But recent events ar...
WASHINGTON — If you doubt there’s an American welfare state, you should read the new study by demographer Nicholas Eberstadt, whose blizzard of numbers demonstrates othe...
After last week’s election, talk in Washington turned to avoiding the “fiscal cliff.” That means Democrats and Republicans negotiating a so-called grand bargain to avoid...
It wasn’t exactly a Kumbaya moment, but top congressional Republicans offered Wednesday to meet the president halfway when it comes to solving the government’s fiscal wo...
Democrats and Republicans in Washington each had spent two years counting on Tuesday’s election to give their party the upper hand in their furious cage match over feder...
So for all that cash (billions) spent to fund all that campaigning (relentless) and all those ads (millions), what do we get? The same president, the same party running ...
WASHINGTON — It’s still about jobs. What will determine the core success of President Obama’s second term is progress — or the lack thereof — in reducing long-term unemp...
Second terms have rarely been kind to American presidents.
Our last two-term leader, George W. Bush, ended his tenure with a financial crash so disastrous that his own p...
No one should be surprised that the presidential election has been so close. For weeks, opinion polls have told us it would be.
Now that Election Day is done, there is n...
