With legions of baby boomers starting to retire, a growing number of Americans will soon need some kind of long-term health care, whether from a nursing home or from an ...
The new law that allows President Obama to raise the debt ceiling created a bipartisan “super- committee” to seek a major deficit-reduction deal by Thanksgiving, and las...
Despite the avalanche of bad news for President Barack Obama, he remains the most likely winner of the 2012 elections.
That’s the conclusion I reached after watching the...
WASHINGTON — It’s true: Deficit reduction isn’t an economic panacea. It won’t instantly boost the economy or the stock market. It won’t automatically end financial turmo...
Most Americans have never heard of Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform. So someone please explain why an individual never elected to Congress has more...
Buyers of poultry products from a Cargill processing plant in Arkansas may have gotten a little something extra with their turkey burgers: a strain of antibiotic-resista...
WASHINGTON — Of all the endlessly repeated conventional wisdom in today’s Washington, the most lazy, stupid and ubiquitous is that our politics is broken. On the contrar...
The American people believe all kinds of things. Three years ago, for example, a Harris Poll found that 71 percent believe in angels but only 47 percent believe in evolu...
It’s an old truism that the stock market balances fear and greed. Lately, fear has come out on top.
On Monday, the first U.S. trading session since Standard & Poor’s cut...
WASHINGTON — Europe may no longer be able to save itself. Too many countries have too much debt. Its economic growth — which helps countries service their debts — is too...
