Three recent sports biographies — two about baseball stars Stan Musial and Hank Greenberg, and another about boxing great Joe Louis — are not only interesting in themselves, but also recall an era that now seems as irretrievably past as the Roman Empire...
You know it’s a bad day on the campaign trail when a candidate has to go to unusual lengths to assure folks that she’s not a fan of America’s slavery experience...
The President repeats that both parties must abandon their sacred cows in budget negotiations. Republicans, he argues, will have to agree to tax increases as part of a deficit reduction package...
Last month, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber published an NBER Working Paper, "The Impacts of the Affordable Care Act: How Reasonable are the Projections?" WP No. 17168...
House education chairman John Kline released a bill last week that would provide “unprecedented” flexibility for states and local school districts around how they spend their federal education dollars...
When the Secretary of Defense declares, as Leon Panetta recently did, that the strategic defeat of Al Qaeda is “within reach,” it is probably time to start thinking about the termination of hostilities for purposes of AUMF detention authority...
Newsflash from the administration: The U.S. State Department plans to call in Syria’s senior diplomat in Washington to complain about an attack on the U.S. embassy in Damascus, a U.S. official said on Monday...
Add to the corpus of “spread the wealth” and “I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money” a new Obama proclamation from today’s news conference, about the president’s desire to pay higher taxes because of “hundreds of thousands of dollars in income that I don’t need...
On July 9, 2011, The Washington Post published an article by Laura Keeley entitled “Boston venture capitalists don’t want to let another big one get away...
