When the United States was in recession three decades ago, middle-age industrial workers were the biggest losers.
The most recent recession and hesitant recovery, though...
On Monday the U.S. Senate will take up S. 2230, “The Paying a Fair Share Act of 2012,” which would enact the so-called “Buffett Rule.”
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, ...
NEW YORK — The Obama administration’s Iran strategy has worked so far. Unprecedented pressure has forced Tehran to the negotiating table. It will take extraordinary dipl...
As Americans scramble to file their tax returns before Tuesday’s deadline, President Barack Obama and his allies are pressing a multilevel campaign to bolster what seems...
One of the truisms of U.S. transportation planning has long been that each year, there will be more cars on the road.
This has been the case for decades. But not the pas...
WASHINGTON — Amelioration of today’s drug problem requires Americans to understand the significance of the 80/20 ratio. Twenty percent of American drinkers consume 80 pe...
Warning: Chemicals in the packaging, surfaces or contents of many products might cause long-term health effects, including cancers of the breast, brain and testicles; lo...
The shadow of Watergate falls only lightly across the U.S. political landscape. Instead, the epic scandal is discernible mainly in the absence of the evils that engender...
WASHINGTON — Would Franklin Roosevelt approve of Social Security? The question seems absurd. After all, Social Security is considered the New Deal’s signature achievemen...
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama’s intellectual sociopathy — his often breezy and sometimes loutish indifference to truth — should no longer startle. It should, however, influe...
