As the battle over the Keystone XL pipeline has worn on—and it’s now well over two years old—it has illuminated the Obama presidency like no other issue. It offers the president not just a choice of policies, but a choice of friends, worldviews, styles. It’s become an X-ray for a flagging presidency. The stakes are […]

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In 1930, an obscure lawsuit against Bethlehem Steel unearthed a piece of corporate data that would quickly outrage Great Depression-era America. Bethlehem CEO W.R. Grace, Americans learned, had grabbed $1.6 million in personal compensation the year before. That revelation would soon help fix a variety of new regulations on America’s corporate executive suites, including a […]

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West, Texas It has been six months since the fertilizer plant here exploded, killing 15, injuring more than 200 and leveling a swath of this small town 70 miles south of Fort Worth. The debris has been hauled off, rebuilding is underway, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration this month handed down $118,300 in […]

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Oh my God. It is so hard to log on and, when you do, you can’t get anywhere. Clearly, Obamacare is a disaster. I blame two things for that. One is computers which although a huge benefit to humanity are a royal pain in the butt. I mean who could have imagined a system that […]

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(National Institutes of Health | Source: NIH)  On a damp Friday morning, 11 days into the government shutdown, a few dozen truckers took to the Capital Beltway to tell lawmakers they were angry. They were protesting big government. Yet opinion polls showed that Americans opposed the government shutdown and were hurting because of it. At […]

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