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...
Penn State University’s Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal will continue to provide lessons to other universities — and others — on how not to react to such troublesome is...
WASHINGTON — Whatever else they are, the super-rich have now become political props. We can thank President Obama and Mitt Romney for this. Obama thinks he can ride rese...
President Barack Obama left no doubt in Tuesday night’s State of the Union Address that he has shifted into all-out campaign mode as he focused on economic fairness and ...
The State of the Union Address is a political exercise in the best of times. But when a president is running for re-election and Congress is dominated by his most bitter...
It’s starting to look like Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has done enough to shield the U.S. economy from Europe’s trouble and put it on the road to recovery.
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WASHINGTON — An Illinois lawyer who had a way with words once characterized a particular argument as weaker than soup made from the shadow of a pigeon that died of starv...
