At a party a few years ago, a young reporter bounded over to my cluster of social nodders and, with the breathlessness of a born tweeter, chirped: "What's the new hot thing?!" Without disturbing my mascara, I replied: "Anonymity." She looked befuddled.

With just two Mondays of decision left this month, somewhere deep in the Supreme Court, the nine justices are sitting at a table, staring at a whiteboard.

Without the slightest hint of irony, President Obama said last week, “If people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t trust Congress, and don’t trust federal judges, to make sure that we’re abiding by the Constitution with due process and rule of law, then we’re going ...

Recent revelations showing how the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has targeted conservative groups for the past three years comprise only the first part of the story. Another part is how the IRS has favored liberal organizations.

Over the past three years, 45 states have adopted the Common Core State Standards. These objectives were developed to ensure that America's students acquire the academic skills they need to reach their full potential.

It was never quite clear what feminizing the workplace would mean when women en masse invaded corporate America a generation ago. Most of us donned our Mao suits, bow ties and sensible shoes and did our best to blend in.

A widespread though unverified rumor had it that President Bill Clinton did not want the newspaper-broadcast ownership rule repealed as part of the 1996 Telecommunications Act because he did not want the owner of the Little Rock, Ark.

This week, I respond to reader questions about coverage subsidies for families under the Affordable Care Act, filling the gaps in Medicare coverage and laws governing health plans in companies that conduct business in more than one state. Q.

Netanyahu warns Putin that Israel will go to war to stop the Russian S-300 missile system from being deployed in Syria.

"Are you kidding me?" I was always stunned to hear reporters ask me - as they did half a dozen times when I worked at the Pentagon - to show them some classified document or other.