For all the homage paid to Grover Norquist in Washington, you’d think we’d elected him to some high office.
Deficit hawk Alan Simpson says he’s one of the biggest obstac...
WASHINGTON — A debt crisis is a terrible thing to waste in a presidential election season, and Democrats and Republicans alike are responding on cue.
The news Saturday n...
WASHINGTON — Just in case you hadn’t noticed, no one has elected Grover Norquist to anything. Still, he looms as a major obstacle to Congress reaching a deficit-reductio...
WASHINGTON — Here we go again. An approaching crisis. A looming deadline. Nervous markets. And then, from the miasma of gridlock, rises our president, calling upon those...
The United Nations has never lived up to the grandiose aspirations of its founders. By the 1990s, even many of its supporters admitted the world body had become a bloate...
For the last seven years, I worked on the challenge of global warming. The signs — both visible, such as the pace of natural disasters and sea-level rise, and invisible,...
Wage-earning, tax-paying Americans ought to be outraged by stealth Republican efforts to frustrate collection of hundreds of billions of dollars in unpaid taxes.
The Int...
The Florida jurors who acquitted Casey Anthony of murdering her 2-year-old daughter didn’t spend a lot of time agonizing over their verdict. After listening to five week...
President Barack Obama says it’s time to “get it done.” Unfortunately, his remarks last week did little to encourage a deal raising the debt ceiling and cutting the defi...
In 2008, as financial crisis threatened the U.S. banking system, President George W. Bush asked Congress to approve an emergency bailout. Leaders of both parties blessed...
