National service isn't just for kids anymore.
The bipartisan Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, which President Barack Obama was to sign today, is the most inclusive a...
Well, that was simple. Shoot the pirates, problem solved.
OK, not the problem of piracy per se. But the problem of these specific pirates off the coast of Somalia: taken...
Businesses and markets abhor uncertainty. But the federal government's bailout sweepstakes has been anything but certain. Even after months of cash infusions into banks ...
WASHINGTON - Franklin Roosevelt gave us the New Deal. John Kennedy gave us the New Frontier. In a major domestic policy address at Georgetown University the other day, B...
U.S. immigration officers no longer blink when they see "China" stamped on a U.S. passport. Or "Russia." Or "Vietnam." Americans are free to travel to places once a long...
Some readers dared me to go a giant step further than my column last month agreeing with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that America's demand for illegal drugs was a...
But what about next time?
That's the lingering question after Sunday's daring rescue of merchant ship Capt. Richard Phillips.
U.S. Navy SEALs marksmen killed three Somal...
Rep. Bobby Rush is the only political officeholder who can say that he beat Barack Obama. But he doesn't say it much. Not now.
"Yeah, a lot of people remind me of that,"...
Democracy and majority rule give an aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be deemed tyranny. Think about it. How many decisions in our day-to-day lives would w...
By NICHOLAS C. NEUPAUER and ROBERT SMITH
Recently, there has been much attention around the issues of accessibility to and affordability of higher education in Pennsylva...
