In Edna Ferber's 1925 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
So Big, a cultured woman spends her life doing hard physical labor on a rural Illinois farm so that her son can g...
Clean coal, anyone?
The much-ballyhooed FutureGen project aimed at generating electric power using "clean-coal" technology was first on, then suddenly off, and now it's....
WASHINGTON — A $14 trillion economy hangs by a thread composed of (a) a comically cynical, pitchfork-wielding Congress, (b) a hopelessly understaffed, stumbling Obama ad...
Economic recessions tend to feed dangerous protectionist instincts, so it's no surprise they're surfacing now in Congress. President Obama must quickly intervene to thwa...
WASHINGTON — What a relief to hear Barack Obama tell a California audience the other day: "I am the president of the United States of America."
Who knew?!
Lately, it's b...
Thursday was the sixth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, but no one paid much attention.
Instead, our attention was — and remains — fixated on bank bailouts and ...
WASHINGTON — With a flick of his pen, President Barack Obama finally laid to rest Freud's most famous question and iterated one of man's hardest-won lessons: Women want ...
Sunoco says it has begun restricting sales of bisphenol A to makers of products intended for children. Last week, major producers of baby bottles, including Gerber and P...
Hillary Rodham Clinton tiptoed oh-so-carefully around the Israel-Palestine issue on her recent trip to the Middle East.
But she and President Obama will have to make som...
There’s nothing like a brutal recession to reinforce the value of a good education.
The U.S. unemployment rate was 8.1 percent in February, the highest in about 25 years...
