WASHINGTON — Things are looking up for substantive reform of America's troubled health care system.
No one who knows the history of such efforts, from Harry Truman's adm...
The automobile industry plays an important role in the U.S. economy, and its failure would add to the nation's financial woes. But a $25 billion federal bailout of GM, F...
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson looks like an investment banker. He's a big guy, whose large hands, broad shoulders and balding head signal he's got the drive, the cojo...
It is now clear that the administration is groping in semi-darkness for answers to the nation's cascading economic woes. The $700 billion bailout plan that once was supp...
On Sunday night, President-elect Barack Obama told "60 Minutes" that Franklin D. Roosevelt would be a model of sorts for him. "What you see in FDR that I hope my team ca...
WASHINGTON — It may be moot and it certainly is presumptuous, but I would be less than honest with readers if I did not say what I believe: Making Hillary Rodham Clinton...
It looks less likely now that the Detroit Three will get that extra helping of pork that they want to go with their turkey of a bailout plan, but congressional Democrats...
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Wednesday delivered his first 30-day update on the $700 billion rescue package of the financial system. So how is it doing?
Of the fi...
WASHINGTON — "Nothing," said a General Motors spokesman last week, "has changed relative to the GM board's support for the GM management team during this historically di...
Fresh ire aimed at former Harvard University President Larry Summers prompts the question: Shouldn't there be a statute of limitations on dumb things expressed in public...
