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Every man has a father and Binyamin Netanyahu's is worth knowing. He is Benzion Netanyahu, born 101 years ago in what was soon to become Poland and living now in...

Every man has a father and Binyamin Netanyahu's is worth knowing. He is Benzion Netanyahu, born 101 years ago in what was soon to become Poland and living now in...

SAN DIEGO -- So now we know that, when the subject is immigration, Republicans can't take a joke. Just look at what happened with the moat. During his immigration speech...

Raj Rajaratnam should be about the last person in the world that I have any sympathy for. I don't know him. I don't have a lot in common with billionaires...

SAN DIEGO -- This being soccer season, it's appropriate that many Latinos see President Obama and the promise of immigration reform like Lucy and the futbol. This week, in El...

WASHINGTON -- I hope Mitch Daniels runs for president. Let me go further: I hope he wins the Republican nomination. I can't imagine voting for him. But Daniels' presence would...

The big news is not that Osama bin Laden is dead. I mean, that is certainly big news, but a guy in hiding who has a record price tag on...

A friend from out of town asked me what everyone in Los Angeles was saying about the budget crisis and the almost shutdown of the government. Did I know it...

NEW YORK -- So why do Republicans hate art, the elderly and children? Hint: Same reason parents hate their children when they say, "No." We could just leave it at...

WASHINGTON -- One image perfectly captured the meaning of the absurd, irrational and wholly unnecessary confrontation over whether to shut down the federal government on the basis of remarkably small...

In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed an international conference at Evian-les-Bains, France, to deal with the urgent problem of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. Representatives from 32 countries met...

WASHINGTON -- In his speech Monday night to a public thoroughly, and understandably, befuddled about U.S. policy in Libya, President Obama began to fill in some important blanks. The White...

BOSTON -- We became friends long after we had known each other as candidate and journalist. Long after the grit that Geraldine Ferraro showed facing down press and politicians had...

WASHINGTON -- For many families, this is March madness -- the moment of high anxiety concerning higher education as many colleges announce their admittance decisions. It is the culmination of...

I quit smoking 25 years ago. Before that, I had tried eight times, and each time I failed. Three things finally got me to quit, cold turkey, forever. My then...