WASHINGTON — In a radio interview that aired Monday on Univision, President Obama chided Latinos who "sit out the election instead of saying, 'We're gonna punish our ene...
Like presidential predecessors from Franklin Roosevelt to George W. Bush, Barack Obama has been barnstorming the country, seeking to head off a midterm Democratic drubbi...
WASHINGTON — I have this strange feeling that we are about to be badly misled about the political climate in this country. We are going to look at the returns on the big...
There was good news in a report released last week by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control: Fatalities among teenage drivers have fallen steadily and markedly since the ...
With garbage piling up, gas stations running dry and scattered violence in the streets, France hardly looks like a role model for the U.S. these days.
But at least Frenc...
If you're looking for a bellwether race that might tell you early on election night how the congressional elections will turn out nationwide, look to Pennsylvania.
The S...
In the grand global experiment now under way as countries try to cope with the economic downturn, Europe and the United States are going in opposite directions. As the O...
We use a variety of yardsticks to judge whether our country is on the right track. Is inflation up? Has unemployment dropped? What's the stock market doing today?
Here's...
There's been more news about the federally controlled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in recent days — and none of it is good news.
The cost of the federal ba...
Teachers are at the center of the great debate over how to fix American education. We're told the bad ones need to be fired; the good ones, rewarded. But what about the ...
