Trade protectionism was on the rise in the world even before recession hit last year. Now economic hardship is raising the stakes. The parallels to events in the early y...
WASHINGTON — It may be time to take a closer look at karmic justice — that mysterious quid pro quo by which good and bad acts are rewarded in kind.
One needn't believe i...
I keep waiting for that moment when Barack Obama — President Obama — tells the American people that there is a price to be paid for the many proposals he has offered. Th...
The seniors at the University of Miami watched the 44th president's inauguration with the tempered hope that comes with the wisdom of age.
These weren't 20-something stu...
As President Obama takes America's helm, I recall a poignant, recent cover of The Economist that featured him, striding with determination, underneath a simple headline:...
WASHINGTON — It is the curse of the journalist always to be present, but never really There.
The job requires that we stand slightly apart, seeing but not believing; hea...
On his way out of office, President Bush used his power of the pardon to commute the sentences of former U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who ha...
Barack Obama takes office with a mandate to improve the economy. But he'll have to start his new gig without a Treasury secretary. His nominee, Timothy Geithner, has yet...
President-elect Barack Obama said recently that overhauling Social Security and Medicare would be central to his effort to curb federal spending.
That struck me as odd, ...
What a day! Remember this one so you can tell your kids and grandkids about it in years to come.
Jan. 20, 2009, sits on a trajectory from the Emancipation Proclamation t...
