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 ...
WASHINGTON — In the last year or so of George W. Bush's second term, commentators used to talk a lot about the conspicuous scarcity of other Republicans willing to stand...
This nation's health care system can't continue on its current course. The cost and waste involved with this country's method of health care delivery are arguably the gr...
WASHINGTON — "Last year," Ryan Bingham says, "I spent 322 days on the road, which means that I had to spend 43 miserable days at home." Home is an Omaha rental unit less...
WASHINGTON — Perhaps it is the spirit of the season, but my empathy receptors are in overdrive for poor Barack Obama. All he wanted for Christmas was a health care refor...
Can everyone stop beating up President Obama over our double-digit unemployment rate?
Last week, the Congressional Black Caucus piled on, pointing out that the unemploym...
Aggressive re-regulation of U.S. banks is about three financial crises and one near-economic meltdown overdue. Legislation passed by the House last week is a start, but ...
WASHINGTON — The 34 names are familiar to anyone who has followed economic policy in Washington for the past generation, one-third of them former chairmen or members of ...
