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Daniel Day-Lewis’s richly deserved Oscar for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln should provoke some more consideration about who Abraham Lincoln's true heir is today. For the appalling, tragic fact

Frances Oldham Kelsey is old and frail now. At 98, she lives quietly in her home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Almost no one remembers her. Yet this soft-spoken, impeccably mannered

Saturday, Feb. 2 marks a very obscure date for Americans, but one that saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of young American boys in World War II: It

It started cold and sharp. Overcast with breaks in the clouds. Then after the formal swearing in, the clouds magically vanished, the temperature rose and the Sun shone brightly

Friday, Jan. 11 marked a bizarre but fitting anniversary in my native Belfast City back in Northern Ireland. It marked a Biblical 40 consecutive nights of continuing protests and riots,

Former Sen. Chick Hagel knows that when he is confirmed as the next secretary of defense he will have to cut hundreds of billions of dollars a year from

The GOP already is in denial. The False Prophets of the fat-cat Washington think tanks and the conservative talk show circuit who have locked it into its suicidal kamikaze death

The polls were right: Too close to call. But it went the president’s way in the end. Two weeks ago, the polls clearly showed clear and continuing momentum for Mitt

The question sounds ridiculous but it is a surprisingly substantive one: Major national disasters or exceptional storms often cause profound and lasting changes to political conditions. And in this