While politicians and journalists might sometimes be friendly, journalists need some distance to fairly call balls and strikes. In some cases, though, friendships predat...
Politicians on both sides of the partisan divide want to simplify the federal tax code by pruning the thicket of loopholes, exemptions and credits. In fact, President Ob...
WASHINGTON — I worry about the future — not mine but that of my three children, all in their 20s. It is an axiom of American folklore that every generation should live b...
Imagine an industry that receives 86 percent of its revenues from the federal government — $32 billion in a single year — but more often than not fails to turn out a suc...
Pennsylvania’s new voter ID requirement, which was signed into law in March, has evoked a number of responses — pro and con — in the Butler Eagle’s letters to the editor...
The problem of big money in political campaigns isn’t just that there’s too much but that too much of it, with great potential for skewing election results, is being hid...
What if we knew how to reduce by half the number of Americans dependent on welfare? What if we could — at the same time — significantly reduce poverty among children and...
Politicians haven’t always been allergic to gun control, not even Republicans.
In 1968, after the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther Ki...
All along, I’ve felt Barack Obama would be a two-term president. He’s a cultural phenomenon who reflects America’s exciting, growing diversity, and presidents representi...
Entering adulthood used to be like wading into a gently sloping lake. You got your feet wet with a degree or job. Then maybe you found an apartment, and eventually a lif...
