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Obamacare replacement is hard to score, budget experts say

Republicans have a point that their Obamacare replacement plan is particularly hard for the Congressional Budget Office to score, budget experts say...  Read more

America needs comprehensive tax reform

Though America has prospered since the end of the so-called "great recession," the economy has grown by so little it's hardly worthy of mention...  Read more

Doing Nancy's bidding?

Republicans control the presidency as well as both houses of Congress. They were elected on a tsunami of public frustration with Democrats and their heavy-handed regulatory fatwas - especially with regard to healthcare...  Read more

C.S. Lewis and the Hound of Heaven

A new one-man play about one man's spiritual pilgrimage, C.S. Lewis on Stage: The Most Reluctant Convert, opens with a riff against a cruel, indifferent, and seemingly meaningless universe reminiscent of a Woody Allen monologue...  Read more

The road to Obamacare replacement is getting rockier

Republicans are facing deep political potholes as they move down the road of repealing and replacing Obamacare...  Read more

Environmentalists to try to extend crisis at grid watchdog

Environmental groups are switching gears from opposing single pipeline projects, such as the Dakota Access and Keystone XL, to opposing the agency that is charged with approving them...  Read more

Half-baked Obamacare is recipe for GOP failure

The Republican bill keeps in place too much government meddling, and so it won't unleash market forces...  Read more

Trump's better order — and the border

The White House corrected an early mistake and issued a narrower and much improved executive order curbing visas from terrorist hotbeds...  Read more

A Heroic Night at Carnegie Hall

The program achieved this success despite beginning with Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee by contemporary American composer Gunther Schuller...  Read more

How bad is the defense acquisition system, really?

Every day, anonymous bureaucrats make decisions that will have a profound effect on people's lives...  Read more

The return of Rand Paul

Sen. Rand Paul's days-long quest to find the House Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare was derided by GOP lawmakers as a "publicity stunt," but it might just put the Kentucky congressman back in the mix when it comes to influencing Congress as it prepares to make a series of key policy decisions...  Read more

Republican Obamacare plan signals that liberalism has already won

In releasing their healthcare plan on Monday, House Republican leaders sent a signal loud and clear: liberalism has already won...  Read more

Can the US shoot down North Korean missiles?

If North Korea were to make good on its threat to develop a missile with the range to strike the U.S. mainland, commanders would rely on a layer of the missile shield which consists of 36 interceptor missiles at Fort Greely, Ala., and Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif...  Read more

Trump revives immigration debate on Capitol Hill

Amid the flurry of legislative activity surrounding healthcare and tax reform measures, lawmakers are suddenly buzzing about the potential revival of a long-dead effort to pass immigration reform...  Read more

GOP congressman worries: Russia might move in the Balkans

Russia might take advantage of instability in Macedonia to recover some of the Balkan territory lost following the collapse of the Soviet Union, according to a Republican lawmaker...  Read more

The Crisis and the Truth

It's not a good idea, but it's not a crisis either, when the sitting president of the United States invents claims of massive voter fraud or misstates crime rates or does many of the other things Donald Trump has done...  Read more

Trump's Wiretap Claims: What We Know and What We Don't

I spent most of the last two days reporting out the extraordinary allegations President Donald Trump made against his predecessor, Barack Obama – that Obama had Trump's "wires tapped in Trump Tower."...  Read more

Fizzy Math

What's the sound a bottle of soda makes when opened? If you're the government in Berkeley or Philadelphia, it's not ssfzzzt but cha-ching...  Read more