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NEW YORK — It befalls the columnist this time of year to look back and recap; to assign blame and shame, while offering the obligatory mea culpa; and, of course, to reso...

WASHINGTON — Most people don’t remember Obamacare’s notorious Section 1233, mandating government payments for end-of-life counseling. It aroused so much anxiety as a pos...

Now that Congress and President Obama have finished congratulating themselves on extending tax cuts, the harder work of deficit reduction must soon begin. The agreement ...

The good news heading into 2011 is that leaders in both parties seem genuinely interested in overhauling our tax code. President Barack Obama brought it up during a rece...

A year ago, on Christmas Day, a young Nigerian named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly tried to blow up a passenger jet in midair as it was landing in Detroit, using a...

Just before leaving for Baghdad recently, I spoke by phone to my Iraqi driver Salam, who was recently released from prison. What he told me haunted me during my visit. I...

The Obama administration is faced with one of those damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t decisions: Should it be giving Americans advice on what to do in case of a nucl...

Almost no one is happy with the rules governing “network neutrality” adopted Tuesday by the Federal Communications Commission. The Democratic commissioners who voted for...

WASHINGTON — The nation’s menu of crises caused by governmental malpractice might soon include states coming to Congress as mendicants, seeking relief from the consequen...

Some stories are timeless . . . like the letter an eight-year-old girl wrote 113 years ago to the editor of the New York Sun. Every year, at this season, the Butler Eagl...