Elizabeth Edwards lived much of her life knowing all too well what “a matter of life and death” really meant. She knew the best of what life had to offer, and she knew t...
WASHINGTON — It took a month for Barack Obama to make clear what he has learned from the midterm election “shellacking,” but the time has not been wasted. Future politic...
In 2003, Charles Krauthammer, a columnist and psychiatrist, coined a new term. Noting what he said was “the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reactio...
President Barack Obama last week announced that future offshore exploration leases in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and off the Atlantic coast would not be part of the Inte...
It wasn’t easy for the co-chairmen of President Obama’s fiscal commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, to win support from most of the panel’s 18 members last week ...
WASHINGTON — This was a sad time for many of us watching Charlie Rangel receive the censure of his colleagues in the House of Representatives — not because of our disagr...
All the hoopla about whether WikiLeaks has harmed U.S. foreign policy has missed the most stunning lesson of this drama.
We now know that, in the age of the Internet, tw...
The game has become all too familiar.
North Korea commits a provocative act, talks ensue, and the North makes a series of promises in exchange for aid. Aid deliveries co...
NEW YORK — Pending catastrophe is not an easy notion to entertain, much less sustain. Americans moreover have a low tolerance for doom and gloom. We are the nation of op...
The fat cats came out on top again Tuesday.
Republicans in Congress reaffirmed their intent to protect tax cuts for the rich — including the folks who orchestrated the c...
