News Companion

The move by the Trump administration to open all U.S. coastal waters to drilling brings back memories of the 2008 election and the Republic...

"If a problem can't be solved, enlarge it" -- attributed to Dwight D. Eisenhower After a showing of Martin Luther King'...

It's often said that a tax on carbon is both urgently needed and politically impossible. One reason for the political roadblock is num...

Views on the 22nd Amendment's ban on presidents seeking a third term, like views on Senate filibuster rules, will vary according to who ...

As Congress passed $9.7 billion in storm relief for victims of Hurricane Sandy today, 67 Republicans in the House voted against the measure....

David Brooks, the ubiquitous political commentator, gave a fluid talk at Princeton University this past Monday evening, as the audience over...

One seemingly bottomless source of national pessimism today is the notion that government can't do anything right and that regulators ar...

This past week, there was a well-attended public forum at the Arts Council of Princeton, entitled "Civics, Humanities, and News Media i...

The Titanic sank 100 years ago today. The following was first published on the April 12 Trenton Times opinion page under the title, "Ea...

A January 24 article in my local paper announces that the U.S. Dept. of Transportation is imposing new regulations on airlines to protect co...

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, in an attack on regulation of light bulbs, recently resurrected old complaints about low-flow toilets. In a G...