Early in my reporting career -- nearly half a century ago -- my editor sent me out on a freezing pre-Christmas day to do a story on poverty in northeast Washington, D.C.

I found people living in basement apartments with dirt floors. Many were hungry, cold and short of coal...

Getting agriculture policy right was viewed as a key to pulling America out of the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace's visionary ideas on food security, soil conservation and a social safety net for farmers were at the heart of the New Deal,...

In labeling Democrats as the "party of big government," Republicans may have pulled off the most audacious public relations coup since Austria persuaded the world that Hitler was a German.

When President Bush took office, the government was running a budget surplus and was on its way to paying off...