After President Obama announced his latest effort to try to stem foreclosures last week, House Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, said it was time for Washington to stop m...
WASHINGTON — Through 11 presidential elections, beginning with the Democrats’ nomination of George McGovern in 1972, Republicans have enjoyed a presumption of superiorit...
Charles Dickens was born 200 years ago yesterday (Feb.7, 2012), and I wonder how he’d react if he were to see the current United States. He might be amazed to find that ...
”The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”
— L.P. Hartley, English novelist
WASHINGTON — It must now be obvious that, economically speaking, we’r...
WASHINGTON — Imperial regimes can crack when they are driven out of their major foreign outposts. The fall of the Berlin Wall did not just signal the liberation of Easte...
The Jan. 20 death of 72-year-old rhythm-and-blues legend Etta James, just three days after the death of her mentor, bandleader Johnny Otis, is a sad reminder that the ea...
WASHINGTON — Almost everyone favors “tax reform” in the abstract: Broaden the tax base by reducing deductions, credits and other tax breaks; and then cut top tax rates. ...
The Republican presidential race proves that Karl Marx was right: When history repeats itself, it occurs first as tragedy and then as farce. Fortunately, both can be ins...
WASHINGTON — A week after President Obama denied the application for the Keystone XL pipeline — which would carry oil from Canada’s tar sands deposits in Alberta to U.S....
WASHINGTON - Once upon a time, small ball was not Barack Obama’s game. Tuesday, it was the essence of his State of the Union Address. The visionary of 2008 — purveyor of...
