CAIRO, Egypt — The growing strength of Islamist political parties in the Mideast’s new democracies makes one wonder what will happen to Arab women’s rights.
I’m not talk...
Legislation that is supposed to fix what’s wrong with the federal No Child Left Behind education law would instead water it down to the point that it would not do an ade...
When automobiles first began appearing in the United States in the early 1900s, it took a while before a network of roads and gasoline filling stations was developed to ...
WASHINGTON — We shouldn’t gut defense. A central question of our budget debates is how much we allow growing social spending to crowd out the military and, in effect, fo...
American voters have fired two modern presidents after just one term, Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George H.W. Bush in 1992. Both suffered because the economy was in poor sh...
Three major Republican presidential candidates want to replace all or part of the byzantine federal tax code with a “flat tax” that collects a fixed percentage of one’s ...
In a perfect world, the U.S., China and other leading energy consumers would move with great determination toward cleaner, renewable sources and away from oil and coal.
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A week ago Saturday, someone using the screen name “ArrestAllCEOs” posted the following message on the OccupyWallStreet.org forum:
“I took a break from the struggle here...
A dollar bill, as we all know, is a fleeting thing. Not just because it leaves our hands so much more easily than it returns, but because, as it changes hands, it wears ...
Memo to Republicans: If you don’t nominate Mitt Romney, you’re nuts.
I’m serious here. You should quit your futile quest for the elusively perfect candidate and focus on...
