Where does he find the time?

Not only has Sen. Joe Lieberman been working overtime to smother health reform, he's parked himself squarely in the path of another badly-needed, long-awaited change.

The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure last Friday passed the FEMA Independence Act, which would break...

Eight years on, and Mayor Rudy Giuliani's words still resonate. Asked on September 11th, 2001, what our losses would turn out to be, Giuliani replied, "More than we can bear."

As we pause once more to grieve the senseless deaths of 2,998 people, we must also acknowledge that the...

It's October 2001, and I'm sitting across from a woman with white hair, creases tracing her face like rivers on a map. And I'm about to fill them with tears.

Actually, I'm about to sit by uselessly and watch someone else fill them. Six weeks after September 11th, my...

"If catastrophe comes," President Barack Obama said last year in New Orleans, "the American people must be able to call on a competent government. When I am President, the days of dysfunction and cronyism in Washington will be over."

In the words of poet Bryan Guinness, Obama's "speech...

The American automakers rescue plan now emerging from Washington bears the hallmarks of a nation still seething from multiple post-bailout outrages: AIG took an $85 billion bailout, then spent $443,000 on an executive spa retreat; U.S. banks are clinging to their $700 billion, freezing credit and strangling small businesses, like...