While much attention focuses on how gracefully to dislodge President Hosni Mubarak from his 30-year reign, the Obama administration should be asking how U.S. policies he...
Even for a speaker as famously gifted as President Barack Obama, business executives are a tough crowd.
In my experience, they don’t laugh out loud at jokes as easily an...
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...
