There were times during the past 30 months when it seemed like the Rod Blagojevich case had slipped down the rabbit hole, falling from the level of deadly serious politi...
SAN ANTONIO — In the 1850s, on the steps of the Waco courthouse, Wallace Jefferson’s great-great-great-grandfather was sold. Today, Jefferson is chief justice of Texas’ ...
Many Americans probably wonder why President Obama didn’t call Wednesday for a bigger troop pullout from Afghanistan.
Having recently returned from Afghanistan and Pakis...
WASHINGTON — Is the Libya war legal? Under the 1973 War Powers Resolution, it is not. President Obama has exceeded the 90-day period to receive retroactive authorization...
A plan rolled out in the Republican-controlled House to offer Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor to private operators in the hope that Wall Street investors will speed the arri...
In 1966, as President Lyndon B. Johnson was becoming ever more enmeshed in the war in Vietnam, a Republican senator from Vermont named George D. Aiken proposed an audaci...
Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner is gone from Congress, so perhaps we’ll stop hearing so much about his Internet habits. But his distribution of a lewd photo and online se...
WASHINGTON — Elevating the fallacy of the false alternative to a foreign policy, John McCain and a few others believe Republicans who oppose U.S. intervention in Libya’s...
In the waning minutes of last week’s Republican presidential debate, Mitt Romney was opining about Afghanistan when he uttered something that, in past years, would have ...
“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.”
That bit of wisdom is attributed to Sir William Osler, the doctor often referred to as the father of mo...
