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The fallout from the recent debate over extending the Bush tax cuts has helped President Barack Obama counter the conservative myth that he’s a left-wing ideologue seeki...

WASHINGTON — Many parents have heard FICA Screams. Indignant children, holding in trembling hands their first paychecks, demand to know what FICA is and why it is feasti...

Bernard Pastor of Ohio, brought to this country at age 3, is fighting an order of deportation to Guatemala. Hector Lopez of Oregon is in detention after being deported t...

KABUL, Afghanistan — As President Barack Obama was rolling out his Afghan policy review, I had the chance to visit U.S. forward-operating bases in the Taliban heartland ...

Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., is known as one of the most serious members of Congress. Yet if you search for Harman’s name on THOMAS, the Library of Congress’ website, you...

To ring in 2011, let’s raise a toast in unison to proclaim the most frequently made New Year’s resolution. Then promptly break it. Yes, it’s the season for the annual Am...

The United States now enters its tenth year of war in Afghanistan, longer than U.S. involvement in World War I and World War II combined. The cost to U.S. taxpayers is $...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Will Pakistani assistance to Afghan militants doom America’s efforts in Afghanistan? This question continues to haunt the Afghan conflict as Presid...

It might not feel like it this week, but, according to NASA, 2010 will be the hottest year on record so far. The agency says the record-breaking heat was caused by a com...

NEW YORK — Words matter. Just ask Google, which now has arranged for anyone to search millions of books online and track how many times a particular word has been used ...