Americans are driving more fuel-efficient vehicles and reducing the demand for gasoline, new figures show. It’s an encouraging development at a time when pump prices rem...
Ten years ago, before 9/11 made terrorism our national preoccupation, the agencies that now make up the Department of Homeland Security spent about $22 billion a year on...
A report last month from the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program contains a profound policy question for leaders of America’s cities: How do they respond...
It was a natural reaction after 9/11: Protect the nation at any cost. But a survey of homeland security projects by Los Angeles Times staff writer Kim Murphy reveals tha...
The federal government’s approach to emergency relief has long been to open its checkbook and pay whatever it took to get communities back on their feet. Agencies had bu...
Some of the biggest corporations in the U.S. are moochers.
They’re like the guy who shows up at your Labor Day picnic empty-handed. He drinks all your beer, eats four he...
So here’s Eric Schneiderman, of whom you’ve probably never heard, who last year was elected attorney general of the state of New York, a job that arguably makes him the ...
WASHINGTON — When it comes to energy, America is lucky to be next to Canada, whose proven oil reserves are estimated by Oil and Gas Journal at 175 billion barrels. This ...
Richard Nixon famously said that Republican presidential candidates should run to the right in the primaries, then to the center in the general election. But what happen...
While in China last week, Vice President Joe Biden mistakenly said we own 85 percent of U.S. Treasury securities, while the number actually is 54 percent. But who am I t...
