opinion

If there was ever an example of mankind at its best, it was found Friday at the Byllye Lanes bowling alley when a special needs guy named Tommy solici...

WASHINGTON — In any health care setting, it is wise to listen to the nurses, who see all. Their reports from Dallas about the initial procedures used ...

DENVER — One of the wonders of this political moment is feminist contentment about the infantilization of women in the name of progressive politics. G...

WASHINGTON — The closing days of a closely fought election rarely offer uplifting moments, but the 2014 season has been particularly dreary, nearly de...

Pennsylvania’s odd fellows: Corruption and reform To address both corruption and reform in the same article about Pennsylvania presents a certain ling...

WASHINGTON — Everyone knows that economic inequality has increased dramatically since the 1970s, and this has created a new cottage industry: dissecti...

WASHINGTON — It sounds like the beginning of a joke: Two libertarians and a corporate lobbyist walk into a social hall ... On Wednesday, though, this ...

WASHINGTON — Don’t ask. Just trust that the system will reward you for your compliance. That is the message Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella de...

WASHINGTON — So unpopular is President Obama these days that the (D) following Democratic candidates’ names might stand for Denial. And, so desperate ...

WASHINGTON — Wretched excess by government can be beneficial if it startles people into wholesome disgust and deepened distrust, and prompts judicial ...

SAN DIEGO — When someone puts herself at risk to make a point, the rest of us might ask why she stuck her neck out. But she could just as well turn th...

WASHINGTON — If you are worried about contracting Ebola, I have two suggestions. First, stop. Second, get a flu shot. On the first: If you live in the...

WASHINGTON — The value of American foreign policy conducted by majority vote — which might have resulted in a Nazi-occupied London — is once again evi...

ASPEN, Colo. — One of the challenges that advocates are discussing here at an anti-poverty conference in Aspen — yes, I realize the irony — is getting...

WASHINGTON — Come Tuesday, the national pastime will be the subject of oral arguments in a portentous Supreme Court case. This pastime is not baseball...

WASHINGTON — I have been reading Martin Wolf’s “The Shifts and the Shocks,” a detailed analysis of the 2008-09 financial crisis and its aftermath. Wol...

WASHINGTON — Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Except less regulated. That’s my feeling about so-called ridesharing services such as Uber and L...

WASHINGTON — In the old days, life had many hardships. Among these: the need to wait until Election Day to determine who had won. But now Big Data has...

WASHINGTON — Disloyal or not, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has delivered a root-and-branch critique of President Obama’s approach to the Midd...

NEWARK, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie could be forgiven if he had chips on both shoulders as big as those shoulders. This year, the first of his second t...