WASHINGTON — We find ourselves as a nation in the midst of a profound, deeply corrosive crisis that we largely have been ignoring at our peril. The scope of the problem ...
It is no simple task to balance environmental concerns about climate change and health problems from carbon emissions with the equally compelling reality that Americans ...
Yet another senseless killing spree shocked America this week, as word spread of Monday’s tragedy at Oikos University in Oakland, Calif. The pattern is all too familiar:...
Go ahead, Supreme Court. Rip off the Band-Aid.
Last week the court heard arguments on whether the federal requirement that Americans buy health insurance is unconstituti...
Not long ago, an astute reader noted that it has been nearly two years since I wrote in a column that “most experts now estimate that Iran needs about 18 months to compl...
Is there any way that the United States can engineer a decent exit from Afghanistan that leaves behind a stable country?
The answer depends on Pakistan.
If Pakistan stop...
WASHINGTON — There are so many appalling aspects to the Trayvon Martin case that it’s hard to find a permanent home for outrage.
Most appalling, obviously, is the fatal ...
Even though a congressman boasts that his bill signed into law in January will assure steps are taken to safeguard new shale-gas pipelines snaking across Pennsylvania, s...
WASHINGTON — Call it Richard Nixon’s revenge.
Amid election-year furor over high gasoline prices, something significant has happened to America’s energy outlook. We are ...
No one could have predicted that oil prices would rise to today’s levels. Saudi Arabia’s oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, says they are irrationally high, pointing out that w...
