WASHINGTON – Paul Ryan’s budget is an amazing and wondrous document. Not only does it balance the budget in 10 years while reducing tax rates, it also does so without any pain or suffering — or even breaking a sweat. It achieves not just the longtime goals of policymakers — “a safety net strengthened retirement […]

Sheryl Sandberg has burst into tears in the office, more than once. She has failed at such crucial Mommy Tasks as remembering to dress her son in a green shirt for St. Patrick’s Day — inwardly seething at the officious super-mommy who chided her sartorial shortcomings and worrying, I’m a bad mom. Sandberg spent her […]

We have a tradition in our small family that spills over into my work each day. At dinner time, the three of us hold hands and take turns sharing something we’re grateful for that day. This isn’t an appeal for something we want and grumbling isn’t allowed. I’m immensely grateful for all we have in […]

While New York and New Jersey are still reeling from the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, another area of the country is also in deep trouble. People here and across the country are sending money and food and warm blankets to our neighbors to the south, but Mainers are also sending some much-needed assistance to Washington, […]

The men are so near to each other in all their convictions and theories of life that nothing is left to them but personal competition for the doing of the thing that is to be done. It is the same in religion. The apostle of Christianity and the infidel can meet without a chance of […]

TEL AVIV — Walk through Levinsky Park near the central bus station here and you might think you were in another country. African men, and some women, occupy every inch of a low stone bench in the brutal sun. Blankets are stashed in the branches of a eucalyptus tree, to be retrieved at nightfall. For […]

U.S. officials think Tehran hasn’t yet faced the fact that its negotiating position is weak.

A Republican governor accuses a GOP activist of bias only after he questions her lobbying activities.

Rep. Joe Walsh’s bizarre defense of attacks on his rival should raise eyebrows far beyond his district.