You’d think I would have learned my lesson. But at this time last year, I predicted six 2011 headlines, only one of which appeared — below the Mendoza Line even for a co...
WASHINGTON — Although they have become prone to apocalyptic forebodings about the fragility of the nation’s institutions and traditions under the current president, cons...
WASHINGTON — The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is famously liberal and frequently reversed. Recently, however, a unanimous three-judge panel of this court did someth...
WASHINGTON — There are moments when our political system, whose essential job is to mediate conflicts in broadly acceptable and desirable ways, is simply not up to the t...
In those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria.
And all...
WASHINGTON — Now that Congress has finally reached a compromise on what must be one of the worst pieces of legislation in years — the temporary payroll tax holiday exten...
Who says bipartisanship is dead? In the giving spirit of the season, as the TV commercials remind us, House Republicans handed their Democratic rivals a priceless treasu...
While Democrats and Republicans squabble in Congress, they deserve bipartisan credit for one stunning achievement: the defeat of the United States in Iraq.
The willful b...
Most people following the financial crisis were troubled by the revolving door between Washington, D.C. and Wall Street. In recent years, through both Republican and Dem...
With the final headlong withdrawal this month of U.S. troops from Iraq, President Obama fulfilled a campaign promise to end the war. But was the nearly nine-year mission...
