Oil prices are plummeting around the globe, down 38 percent since July. It's one of the few upbeat developments right now for American consumers.
Back in July, the cost ...
So, who should go to jail?
John McCain insists that the financial crisis is the direct result of Wall Street's "unbridled corruption and greed." Sarah Palin says likewis...
In a rational world, this presidential election would be between Hillary Clinton and John McCain, with their respective running mates Barack Obama and (maybe) Sarah Pali...
On the morning of Nov. 5, whoever wakes up as president-elect should be able to answer a question that stumped Robert Redford's character at the end of "The Candidate."
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WASHINGTON — Someday, we will learn. When it's September and important issues cry out for attention, but we seem consumed by trivia — watch out.
In September 2001, cable...
Employees of Lehman Brothers awoke Monday to word that, overnight, their company had filed for bankruptcy. The half of all Americans who have stakes in the stock market ...
Like hundreds of thousands of people, my folks down in south Louisiana spent more than a week without electricity after Hurricane Gustav barreled through.
When New Orlea...
"Ms. Palin most visibly stumbled when she was asked by Mr. Gibson if she agreed with the Bush doctrine. Ms. Palin did not seem to know what he was talking about. Mr. Gib...
WASHINGTON — Every so often, reality has to intrude on politics. The candidates, of course, resent it and do their damnedest to avoid it. And those of us who make a livi...
WASHINGTON — The Democrats are in a panic. In a presidential race that is impossible to lose, they are behind. Obama devotees are frantically giving advice. Tom Friedman...
