The allies should use their anti-missile missiles to intercept a North Korean ballistic missile test launch. Whatever its operational code name — Operation Return Of Serve is amusing — intercepting a Pyongyang missile test has military and political utility. North Korea’s regime, led by rotund dictator Kim Jong Un, has invested its scant resources and Kim’s […]

WASHINGTON — For those who hoped that American attitudes regarding death changed so as to promote broader health care system reconstruction, news of Health Affairs, the prominent publication of health policy, are discouraging. The publication devotes its latest issue to the care of “end of life” and concludes that — at least so far — the power to […]

Anthony Scaramucci is two things Jeff Sessions is not. One, he is a New Yorker. Two, he is a New Yorker who made a bundle in finance. It matters not that the new White House communications director once called Donald Trump a “hack politician” on Fox Business. Or that Scaramucci has said he is for […]

Republicans’ struggle to repeal and replace Obamacare demonstrates that they desperately need a goal for health-care reform. That goal should be universal coverage. The Affordable Care Act is in bad shape, with premiums increasing at an alarming rate, insurers leaving the exchanges, and a new administration much less willing to prop it up. We aren’t […]

Since the founding of the Republic, elected officials have attempted to manipulate them to further their own political aims by confabulating, distorting or concealing information. However, deliberately casting false information as a lure and then accusing journalists of purveying “fake” news when they bite — a practice Governor LePage proudly admitted earlier this month — […]