WASHINGTON — President Obama was fully justified in dismissing Gen. Stanley McChrystal. The firing offense did not rise to the level of insubordination — this was no Mac...
Nobody knows yet all the circumstances and actions that caused the catastrophic April 20 blowout on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig 52 miles from the Louisiana shore ...
WASHINGTON — In 1932, during a lunch in Albany with Rexford Tugwell, an adviser, Gov. Franklin Roosevelt paused to take a telephone call from Louisiana Gov. Huey Long. W...
Here in the United States, it's a little hard to feel sorry for the French workers who learned last week that their government wants to raise the minimum retirement age ...
I saw her stride purposefully down a pedestrian mall in Chengdu in red tunic and black leggings. And I felt she symbolized one of the most fascinating aspects of today's...
The high point for President Obama last week wasn't when he got BP to agree to put $20 billion aside to pay for damages from the gulf oil spill.
The high point was when ...
President Barack Obama gets the big picture right when it comes to the tragic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
This unprecedented environmental disaster reinforces the f...
A little over a year ago, President Barack Obama reversed George W. Bush's restrictions on embryonic stem cell research.
Just for the record, Bush didn't "ban" embryonic...
WASHINGTON — The eagerness with which Democrats pounced on the foolish comment of Rep. Joe Barton of Texas that BP had been the victim of a White House "shakedown" tells...
It was one of those ohmyGod moments.
Gen. David Petraeus was testifying Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Sen. John McCain was pressing him for his opi...
