In matters regarding pollution, President Barack Obama often finds himself with an impossible choice. Should he protect public health, as environmentalists demand, or pr...
The days leading up to the 9/11 terrorist attacks 10 years ago today were, for me, routine.
I went to a friend’s birthday party on Sept. 5. Our potluck group met at our ...
WASHINGTON — The new conventional wisdom on 9/11: We have created a decade of fear. We overreacted to 9/11 — al-Qaida turned out to be a paper tiger; there never was a s...
Mr. President, you know you’re in a real fix and so is the economy. You know too well how partisanship has poisoned the atmosphere in Washington (and in the rest of the ...
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...
