Over the river and through the body scanner to Grandmother's house we go! What a fun, new twist on traveling with the kids this year. And you thought getting them to take their shoes off and let Bunky the Bear go through the dark tunnel was hard. For this holiday season, parents get to choose...

At the beginning of this year, Iraq’s fragile new political order faced a momentous challenge. The country needed to hold credible democratic elections at a time when its army was still battling al-Qaida and other domestic insurgents. The winners had to form a government in spite of deep rifts amo...

  In international diplomacy, participants sometimes view even small steps as great accomplishments. See, for example, the buzz in global-warming circles around the U.N. climate-change conference in Cancun. which wrapped up over the weekend. ...

Give Julius Genachowski credit for doggedly pursuing his quest to keep the Internet free and open. Unfortunately, we believe that his latest plan for doing so, which he introduced last month, is still flawed....

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The scourge of sexual violence behind bars led in 2003 to the creation of the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, which in 2009 recommended sensible, much-needed reforms. The law that created the commission required the attorney general to act within one year. Attorney General Eric Holder b...

The postal crisis accelerates. On Nov. 12, the U.S. Postal Service announced a loss of $8.5 billion for fiscal 2010, on top of a total loss of $6.1 billion for the two previous years. USPS owes $12 billion, just $3 billion below its legal debt ceiling. That's a problem, since it has projected a loss...

You can easily do a Google search and find an owner's manual for a 1980 refrigerator. You can go online and find the sale price from dozens of stores for an iPhone. You can go to genealogy web sites and trace your family's name back hundreds of years.But you often can't find where governments spend ...

It's a sign of the times, but a positive sign of sorts. When the Steele County Board of Commissioners met to approve the grant funding from the Children and Community Services Act, the commissioners slashed funding to local non-profits by 50 percent. It's the second year in a row that the commission...