Editorial

WASHINGTON — I’ve observed many funerals over the last decade in Arlington National Cemetery’s Section 60, where war dead from Iraq and Afghanistan ar...

WASHINGTON — Lego’s groundbreaking female-scientists set sold out almost immediately after it was released this month. But never fear, fans of feminis...

WASHINGTON — It is the very essence of the American Dream: an irrepressible confidence that our children will live better than we do. And now it is go...

WASHINGTON — If the CIA spends half as much energy finding terrorists as it has spent fighting Congress, we should feel very safe. The spooks, taking ...

WASHINGTON — Call it the great “slack” debate. For nearly six years, the Federal Reserve has held short-term interest rates near zero to boost the eco...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Just when Pennsylvania voters were getting used to the idea of a gubernatorial election showdown between Republican incumbent T...

PORTLAND, Ore. — “Are you kidding ?” This is Monica Wehby’s amiable response to people who wonder whether she will be able to bear the pressures of of...

SAN DIEGO — Almost any discussion of how the United States treats uninvited visitors — whether they be child refugees looking for shelter or adult imm...

WASHINGTON — “Checked the tax code,” wrote a friend who’s engaged to a woman from a low-tax country. “Unfortunately, marrying [my fiancee] does not en...

SAN DIEGO — It will take more than a new pair of glasses to allow Texas Gov. Rick Perry to see his own hypocrisy as he ponders what should be America’...

WASHINGTON — Don’t be so sure the Supreme Court is going to save Obamacare. Again. The question is enormously important: Are health care consumers ent...

WASHINGTON — Rep. Pete Sessions, the House Rules Committee chairman who led Wednesday’s hearing on Republicans’ plans to sue President Obama, presente...

WASHINGTON — There may be a dark lining to the sunny June employment report, which recorded an increase of 288,000 payroll jobs for the month. Most — ...

WASHINGTON — Sarah Palin is right about impeaching President Obama. No, not that the president should be impeached. But Palin is correct in arguing th...

WASHINGTON — Darrell Issa is about to reach a regrettable milestone. The California Republican is one summons away from issuing his 100th subpoena sin...

Gas prices at the pump during the July 4th extended weekend were the highest they have been in six years. This, of course, has little to do with suppl...

WASHINGTON — Two of the larger social trends of our time — the growth of payday gambling and the legalization of marijuana — have two things in common...

SAN DIEGO — Haven’t those poor border kids suffered enough? They shouldn’t have to be used as political props, dragged into the maddening immigration ...

WASHINGTON — “This is not theater.” That wasPresident Obama’s answer in Dallas last week to critics who said he should have gone to the border to see ...

SAN DIEGO — Whenever President Obama acts unilaterally on immigration reform — and it’s not often enough — the reactions on both the right and the lef...