Just a few weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court’s hearings in March on the constitutionality of several parts of the Affordable Care Act — a.k.a. Obamacare — an overwhelm...
A tariff is always a double-edged weapon in international trade. Countries apply them to protect domestic producers but risk retaliation and penalize their own consumers...
There was grim news last week from the eminent diagnosticians at the Congressional Budget Office. Basically, we’re about to undergo the fiscal equivalent of a quadruple ...
The Institute of Medicine, the Centers for Disease Control and HBO just released a film, “Weight of the Nation,” warning us of the latest epidemic to sweep the country: ...
There’s been a sighting this spring of that rarest of birds in Washington: a national energy bill. The bill by Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., has fluttered around a bit, wi...
The encouraging news about public education across the country is that an amazing amount of energy is being built up around reforms that researchers believe could improv...
Apparently, Alabama lawmakers felt they hadn’t gone far enough last year when they enacted the most draconian immigration law in the nation, which, among other things, r...
WASHINGTON -- The Great Jobs Argument — which will be with us until the election — has an interesting and largely ignored subplot. It’s about confidence: Which candidate...
Last year’s tussle over increasing the federal debt limit showed Congress at its worst, paralyzed by dueling ideologies and incapable of striking a grand bargain. The ev...
The West does not have its act together.
Europe and the United States are both in prolonged, multiyear economic slumps. On both continents, the politics are becoming exp...
