President Obama met with his national security team yesterday to decide what to do about Syria amid mounting evidence the Bashar Assad regim...

Here's something fun to challenge yourself with.  The very highly regarded Pew Research organization developed this 13-question quiz on ...

Every week, New York Magazine writer-at-large Frank Rich talks with contributor Eric Benson about the biggest stories in politics and cu...

My wife Joan and I are back from our wonderful whirlwind sixteen-day vacation to Oregon and Washington.  The main highlights were  McK...

We're on our way to Oregon and Washington for vacation this morning.  We'll stay at Mt. Shasta tonight, and then at a cabin on the M...

The New York Times reports that the National Academy of Sciences has released a scientific finding on air pollution.  It finds that people ...

My oldest daughter visited us for the weekend, and yesterday we spent the day at Sequoia National Park.  I was reminded again how great our ...