THE FOOD and Drug Administration made headlines on Monday when a panel of federal health advisers made the first-ever formal recommendation that a weight-loss pill be offered to consumers without a prescription.
TODAY the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, bringing a formal end to contentious committee hearings.
WHILE the Bush administration fights off charges of illegal wiretapping of citizens, a group called the Bruin Alumni Association has made headlines for offering to pay students at UCLA for audio recordings of professors suspected of holding radical left-wing views.
IN THE past few years, while any debate about nuclear proliferation has taken place mainly within the context of Saddam's Iraq, Iran has been pursuing a nuclear energy program with little resistance.
THERE IS much to be learned from Osama bin Laden's recently released audiotape, including, most importantly, the nature of the ongoing war on terror and what is necessary for victory.
AMONG nearly all of the Israelis I spoke to while visiting the country over winter break, there was one point of agreement on the subject of what is going to happen to Israeli politics following the sidelining of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon due to a severe stroke: Nobody knows what will happen.
TWO MAJOR civil liberties "watchdog" groups, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights, have filed lawsuits in federal court seeking to end President Bush's recently-discovered National Security Agency domestic surveillance program.
JAN. 13 was a disastrous day in the war on terror. Although news outlets initially hailed a missile attack by a CIA drone plane in Pakistan as a victory against al-Qaeda, the political fallout from the attack has threatened the future security of the nation and should force the Bush administration to rethink its approach to the war on terrorism.
I HAD the opportunity to attend the fourth day of Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court last week.
A FEW weeks ago, I caught the end of the CBS Evening News -- just in time to watch the final two stories.
THE NATIONAL Security Agency receives word that an American citizen living in the United States who may have connections to a terrorist organization is about to make an important phone call.
SINCE President Bush's speech on American embryonic stem cell policy in August 2001, the issue has mostly not dominated the news.
DR. MARTIN Luther King Jr. Day passed this week, presenting a perfect opportunity to reflect on the United States' progress since King's death.
THE CENTRAL governing principle of our country and one of the chief reasons for the United States' rise to a dominant global power is the individual freedom that our country guarantees its citizens.
IN WHAT was meant to be a bipartisan forum Monday to highlight concern over the use of executive power in the National Security Agency wiretapping cases, former Vice President Al Gore went on a fire-and-brimstone rant.
TO THE conventional wisdom that there are but two things in life that are certain -- death and taxes -- junk mail should be added to create a trifecta.
CHARLES Dickens wrote, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," and he could easily have been writing about Charlottesville.
MY TOUGHEST critic calls my columns "rants," looks at all the writing I've done on these pages and quite often wonders aloud whether I have anything positive to say about anything at all.
TWO YEARS after first raising the idea, President Bush is again touting a guest worker program as part of his reforms for America's troubled immigration system.
THANKSGIVING Break is over, and students have returned to Grounds to attend a final week and a half of classes and to prepare for their final exams -- the last hurdle remaining between them and Winter Break.
