National Editorials and Columns

Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker took a giant step Sunday toward the presidency.

As a former high school teacher, I know one of the great challenges in education is to get teenagers interested in their country.

As a non-Catholic, I wrestled with an internal conflict over the birth control battle of the bishops.

Mitt Romney, so long bedeviled by the politics of health care, might be about to make another serious mistake.

So the people got sick of it, all those criminals being coddled by all those bleeding heart liberal judges with all their soft-headed concern for rights and rehabilitation.

In the run-up to this weekend’s G-8 summit at Camp David, journalists have unfavorably compared European “austerity” with Barack Obama’s economic policies.

We moderns seem determined to suppress all unhappiness with one exception: grief.

My late father was a man of strong opinion.

In February 1989, I ended a phone interview for a magazine story I was writing and looked up to find my 21-month-old daughter imitating me.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood slapped down Reuters for reporting a few weeks ago that he wants “a federal law to ban talking on a cellphone or texting while driving any type of vehicle on any road in the country.”

So apparently, Barack Obama is finally done evolving.

Last week, I wrote about the standings in the presidential race and said it looked like a long, hard slog through about a dozen clearly identified target states, much like the contests in 2000 and 2004.

On the HBO series “Girls,” Hannah asks her boss at a publishing house for a salary.

Quick question: What is the most enduring American pop group of all time?

The politician’s words captured the moment: “This is a historic time ... and one side simply has to win out over the other.”