Congress is heading into another risky debt-ceiling showdown — a situation that a decade ago was unimaginable and has now become disheartening… Read more

Editor's note: This editorial published in the July 17 edition of The Washington Post. Read more

There is a crisis unfolding in Asia, and few are paying attention. Not least the U.S. government, which is probably the only actor that can fix it. Read more

Editor's note: The Washington Post published this editorial on July 16. Read more

America's landing on the moon now stands as such a stunning success that, 50 years later, we have trouble imagining that it could have gone te… Read more

New evidence is emerging that the Chinese campaign to exterminate the culture and traditions of Turkic Muslim people, chiefly Uighurs, in the … Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday convened a "summit" on social media at the White House, where right-wing provocateurs (and not a single sig… Read more

Sunday’s World Cup victory for the U.S. women’s national soccer team was entirely due to the hard work and talent of the players on the field.… Read more

On May 9, my wife and I lost our only child, H. Conor McDowell - just turned 24, a newly promoted Marine first lieutenant, days away from bein… Read more

Americans tend to associate our health problems with sin. It's hard to find a health story in the news that doesn't blame greed and lack of wi… Read more

Editor's note: This editorial published in The Dallas Morning News recently. Read more

The Democrats recently held two nights of debate, each two hours long, and in both sessions the two words that most American families talk abo… Read more

My mom was a working mom before there were really working moms. She went back to school, got another degree in psychology and began a life of … Read more

Plastic is everywhere. It is not merely that the material, rarely used in consumer products before 1950, has become ubiquitous in the homes, c… Read more

Consider: $1.5 trillion in student loan debt, millions of struggling borrowers, an out-of-touch federal regulator and assurances that there’s … Read more

Tuesday seemed to bring a crucial victory in the contest between President Donald Trump and the democratic institutions he attacks. Commerce S… Read more

It’s undeniable: President Donald Trump’s photo-op meeting with Kim Jong Un in the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea on … Read more

In our lore and legend, the American Revolution is seen by quite a few people as a grand little war of another time - redcoats, muskets, trico… Read more

Lawmakers from both parties and President Donald Trump have talked about their shared desire to end surprise medical bills and rein in rising … Read more

In the age of "America First," it's easy to remember July 4 as the day we Americans resolved to go it alone. As Thomas Jefferson proclaimed in… Read more

Nike pulled a new line of sports shoes from its stores in China in June because of a backlash against the company on Chinese social media. The… Read more

Joe Mysak, Bloomberg News' foremost expert on the $3.8 trillion municipal-bond market, has a saying about Puerto Rico: It was technically "in"… Read more

Editor's note: This editorial published on June 3 in The Washington Post. Read more

Editor's note: This editorial published July 2 in The Washington Post. Read more

Represented as a line graph, historical statistics on the public debt of the United States look like a jagged mountain range. Read more

Most Americans likely recall President Donald Trump's tweeted threat to North Korea last year that he has a "Nuclear Button." They also may re… Read more

Stacey, a single mother, was getting 30 hours a week when she first started working at a big-box store in the Bay Area, in early 2015. But her… Read more

There is a familiar, and crude, retort people sometimes make to attempted lies, which we will paraphrase as follows: "Don't pour water on my l… Read more

As things stand now, if you're 52 or younger, Social Security will be able to pay only about 75% of scheduled benefits when you retire. Even a… Read more

The Trump administration continued to nibble away Monday at the problem of high health care costs, unveiling a set of proposals to bring more … Read more

The photograph shows two bodies along the bank of a river. Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his 2-year-old daughter Valeria are seen from ab… Read more

This week marks the first anniversary of the deadliest assault against journalists in U.S. history. On June 28, 2018, a gunman opened fire at … Read more

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., likes to think and govern in grand gestures. As a result, he's succeeded in changing our national conversation in … Read more

Well, here's something new – President Donald Trump, in reversing his own decision to attack multiple targets in Iran in retaliation for the d… Read more

Editor's note: This editorial published June 24 in The Washington Post. Read more

The Great Barrier Reef is bleached and dying. Because oceans are heating so quickly, nearly all of the world’s corals are projected to be dead… Read more

Americans were treated this last week to a split-screen view on climate change. On one side was the Trump administration, led by an unapologet… Read more

When asked recently to name his personal hero, Beto O'Rourke responded with "my wife" – and he probably thought he'd nailed it. A noncontrover… Read more

If Congress can't even manage to give itself a raise, how can it be expected to deal with critical issues that really can't be put off, such a… Read more

WASHINGTON _ Asia is one of the earth's most ethnically and religiously diverse regions. But in geopolitics, it's a place, not an ethnicity, a… Read more

Editor's note: This editorial published June 21 in The Washington Post. Read more

The Constitution creates a two-track political system composed of the states and a federal government, each of which has the power to punish v… Read more

For decades, economists and health-care experts have warned about flawed incentives and rising costs in America's system for employer-sponsore… Read more

Editor's note: This editorial published recently in The Seattle Times. Read more

Editor's note: This editorial published on June 18 in The Washington Post. Read more

"Addiction is actually the point. That's what social media shareholders are investing in." Read more

When I was a kid, my dad half-joked that the Roman Empire fell because the Romans used lead to make their pipes, thus poisoning their drinking… Read more