Opinion

While the attention of the world is averted we must be alive to attempts to slip out negative stories.

Trump promised to lower drug prices but he won't take on the manufacturers. When Americans buy drugs, they really buy advertising and political influence-peddling.

If progressives and conservatives can agree that the more you tax something, in this case jobs, the less you will get of it, on what else can they dare to agree?

The incoming president of the National Rifle Association has a long—and notorious—history of peddling alternative facts.

Samaras had an audacious goal, one that would ultimately save lives.

What Meghan will soon discover—as no doubt Kate found—is that being a full-time royal can be dreadfully dull.

Democrats are trying to be the party of #MeToo. But for all their commendable outrage over the Eric Schneiderman scandal, their grasp on moral superiority is also tenuous.

Palestinians are wedged between a painful exile and a butchered land. This is the definition of ethnic cleansing.

As this remarkable ten days for Israelis ends, many here are very optimistic, but some feel that trouble may be just around the corner.

President Trump has effectively dared Iran’s leaders to restart their nuclear program and substantially boosted the odds of a disastrous war.

Nuclear weapons are not a force for good in the "right" hands. These are indiscriminate weapons of mass destruction, created to murder civilians.

Congress, pass the Dream Act. Do not allow my sister to be taken away from me.

Trump sees this similarly to North Korea. Apply maximum sanctions pressure and see if the opponent comes to the table.

Trumponomics is a thin veneer of an excuse for giving America’s rich whatever they want, while sticking it to everyone else.

“A lasting peace must be based on reality...We are very happy that the American administration has not allowed Palestinian threats to derail its resolve to move the embassy, and we call on all other world leaders to follow suit.”

The media only seems to care about the death of black men when the person doing the killing is wearing a blue uniform.

Trump and Netanyahu share a dream—that renewed sanctions will cripple the regime in Iran and people will rise up to overthrow the government.

They come here seeking refuge from gangs, trafficking and war.

For decades, mainline Protestant denominations had united liberal leaders with more conservative churchgoers. That union proved unsustainable in the wake of 1968.

In Brazil, patients are thought of as having the “right to beauty.”

It should be for each individual to choose whom to include and whom to exclude from his own voluntary relations.

"The Germans whom I met have been my most thoughtful and sensitive customers. That's the truth."

People may be able to locate usable water sources and detect changes in the quality of sources they are already using by observing bats.

“Our Bodies, Ourselves” has been remarkably successful. It has sold more than 4 million copies and been translated into 31 languages.

Universal government benefit programs are not gifts; they are contracts.