WASHINGTON Much grousing about the expense of President Obama’s India trip. This is silly and vindictive. The one thing this country owes its leader is to spare no expen...
A cruel trifecta of human suffering has devastated Haiti, beginning with the Jan. 12 earthquake that claimed more than 200,000 lives. In recent weeks refugee camps have ...
Like many parents of a challenging child, I was quietly thrilled the other day to read that a study in the prestigious medical journal the Lancet reported new evidence t...
WASHINGTON As he promised it would be, Barack Obama’s presidency has been transformative, but not as he intended. Whether it lasts two or six more years, it is an exhaus...
Here’s one thing last week’s congressional election wasn’t about: foreign policy. The campaign was long, loud and polarized, but somehow the fact that the United States ...
Barack Obama showed a talent for political strategy in 2008, upending the favorite, Hillary Clinton, in the Democratic primaries and capturing a bigger share of the vote...
The dramatically transformed political landscape created by last Tuesday’s election puts a heavy burden on President Barack Obama and the GOP leadership to change their ...
This election was about the economy, yes, but also Washington’s failure to come together to ease the pain for average Americans. That must change.
Here’s the lay of the ...
It’s common these days and, to some Democrats, comforting — to summon hazy memories of 1994, when, as happened again on Tuesday, their party lost the House of Representa...
NEW YORK — Two words: Narrative, schmarrative.
Democrats have talked endlessly about the importance of narrative — missing in President Obama’s case. We’ve heard over an...
