WASHINGTON — Reaction to Sen. Ted Kennedy's death suggests that there really are two Americas.
One side sees in Kennedy a liberal lion who fought for the greater good; t...
WASHINGTON — Though common-sense Americans have repeatedly raised the issue of tort reform while discussing health-care legislation with members of Congress during town ...
WASHINGTON — Obamacare Version 1.0 is dead. The 1,000-page monstrosity that emerged in various editions from Congress was done in by widespread national revulsion not ju...
The passing of Sen. Edward M. "Teddy" Kennedy has silenced the greatest liberal voice of the past 50 years and drawn the curtain on an epic generation of a political dyn...
NEW YORK — If mandated universal health care fails this time around, it will be — as always — partly because right-wing scare tactics and misinformation have prevailed o...
Four months ago, swine flu swept across Mexico and then the globe so fast that it caught public health officials — and everyone else — by surprise. There was intense fea...
WASHINGTON — At the Democrats' 1960 convention in Los Angeles that nominated John Kennedy, his 28-year-old brother Ted was standing with the Wyoming delegation when it s...
When convicted Pan Am Flight 103 killer Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi landed to a hero's welcome in Libya last week, there was no question about it: Our Betters in Europe g...
President Obama has hinted that he might abandon the idea of a government-run health insurance plan. But he shouldn't, unless a strong alternative emerges in Congress.
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Washington likes to style itself as the center of the political universe, but this summer the real action is in the states. At town hall meetings, voters are giving thei...
