In this Christmas season, I want to pay tribute to two unsung heroes who stood up to repressive regimes — and paid with their lives.
One was Iranian, one Russian, and I ...
If nothing else, the acrimonious debate over health care reform has contributed some potent new expressions to the American political vocabulary. You heard weeks ago abo...
WASHINGTON — On the day before Christmas, President Obama found two presents under his tree. One was the health care reform bill passed that morning by the Senate, a his...
When legislation is as long and complex as the health care reform bill finally gaining Senate passage, critics from both the left and right can inevitably find some legi...
I don't know even how to begin to thank supporters of the United Way, particularly those who provide some special financial assistance for holiday season emergencies.
Ev...
Waiting is not something we humans do well. Or, perhaps, maybe it's something technology-age humans don't master naturally.
We have no reason to wait, not with so many g...
President Barack Obama returned from Oslo with his Nobel Peace Prize to receive a booby prize in the polls.
Continuing disturbing trends reported by other recent surveys...
In a year filled with outrageous political stunts, the financial industry's $300 million lobbying campaign to block an overhaul of the financial regulatory system might ...
WASHINGTON — It was serendipitous to have almost simultaneous climaxes in Copenhagen and Congress. The former's accomplishment was indiscernible, the latter's was unsigh...
Americans were shocked two years ago to read that wounded soldiers were being housed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in moldy, rotting buildings with cockroaches and ...
