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WASHINGTON — The great wage mystery deepens. In economic recoveries, there usually comes a time when strong job gains lead to strong wage gains. Busin...

WASHINGTON — As President Obama prepared on Tuesday to lay out his economic agenda in his State of the Union address, House Republicans were moving ah...

WASHINGTON — In 1938, Winston Churchill published “While England Slept,” about Britain’s failure to prepare for the Nazi threat. Let’s hope that, when...

WASHINGTON — America’s national character will have to be changed if progressives are going to implement their agenda. So, changing social norms is th...

Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas), like many Americans, was upset that President Obama did not go to Paris to personally show his solidarity with France, and...

WASHINGTON — The dustup over “dynamic scoring” is a small indicator of the routine irrelevancy of Washington’s budget debate. Instead of facing the re...

WASHINGTON — After his third loss, in 1908, as the Democratic presidential nominee, William Jennings Bryan enjoyed telling the story of the drunk who ...

WASHINGTON — I would have thought the French had a better sense of irony. One day they are marching in defiant support of offensive speech. The next t...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania’s two U.S. senators are beginning the 114th Congress in new places: Democrat Bob Casey in the minority for the first ti...

WASHINGTON — The Senate debate over the Keystone XL pipeline, as predictable as it is unedifying, exemplifies two of the most disturbing aspects of po...

WASHINGTON — Tom Donohue, the longtime president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, sounded ebullient as he gave his annual report on the health of Amer...

WASHINGTON — It’s important to get history right — and economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has got it maddeningly wrong. Krugman recen...

WASHINGTON — Not since the multiplication of the loaves and fishes near the Sea of Galilee has there been creativity as miraculous as that of the Keys...

WASHINGTON — As the 114th Congress begins in earnest, there are a number of things — such as tax and immigration reform and trade agreements — that po...

WASHINGTON — If we can be serious for a moment: The president made an error in judgment by not sending someone with a higher profile than our ambassad...

WASHINGTON — I like a feeding frenzy as much as the next shark. But I can’t get a taste for Rep. Steve Scalise’s blood. The Louisiana Republican, newl...

Bet on it! Governor-elect Tom Wolf is going to have a rough first year in office. He faces enormous fiscal and policy challenges, is only the second g...

WASHINGTON — It took the Air Force to change — to radicalize, really — Maribel Jarzabek. Specifically, it took the Air Force lawyer serving in the new...

WASHINGTON — Senate confirmation hearings put nominees on notice that, as a Michigan state legislator reportedly once said, “I’m watching everything y...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Every year is an election year in Pennsylvania, but 2015 has a quality that’s likely to shake up the usually mundane judicial races:...