Every five years since 1980, the government has given the American public nutrition advice by updating the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. And every year since then, A...
During the State of the Union address, President Barack Obama challenged the nation to invest in clean-energy technologies so the U.S. would “out-compete” and “out-innov...
NEW YORK — The turmoil in Egypt has been a lesson in the fragility of a right we so often take for granted: to speak.
It also has been a reminder to those who deride th...
Panic, frenzy and hysteria rarely produce good judgment and wise decisions. But the deep economic fears stirred by the Great Recession might be a breeding ground for pol...
If the government’s latest guidelines for how to eat healthy could be boiled down to a simple directive, it would come down to six words: Less salt, less fat, less sugar...
A little more than two months ago, when Hosni Mubarak’s government rigged Egypt’s most recent parliamentary elections, the Obama administration issued a notably mild sta...
WASHINGTON — In 1994, when Rick Santorum was a second-term Pennsylvania congressman seeking a U.S. Senate seat, a columnist asked him how he was going to win. “Guns,” he...
President Barack Obama extended an olive branch to Republicans last week, and they should take him up on it.
Never mind that the president and congressional Democrats re...
If you want to understand the Egyptian uprising and how U.S. officials should respond, let me take you back to the pro-democracy demonstrations I witnessed in Cairo in 2...
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission has issued its long-awaited report, concluding that the debacle that nearly sank the global economy was fully avoidable, the resu...
