WASHINGTON — There was something fitting about Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou’s reckless call for a referendum on the latest rescue package for his country. Worl...
I’m one of those “job creators” members of Congress profess to admire so much. Thirty-two years ago, my partner and I started a small business with $300 worth of old rec...
After months of hand-wringing and haranguing, European leaders finally agreed on another plan to save Greece from its debt crisis.
(An unexpected weekend call for a...
Tax reform proposals are the political equivalent of science fiction: entertaining but imaginary. No tax proposal ever passes through Congress unscathed. There are too m...
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 ...
