Peter Hannaford

Jerry Brown, in his first stint as Governor of California (1975-83), gave public employees the gift that kept on giving: collective bargaining. Now, in his second stint, nearly three decades later, he is facing the consequences of that gift. Public…

It seems to be next to impossible these days to bridge the gulf between right and left and make friends with someone on the other side, but it can happen. Thanks to a newspaper columnist, this Reagan Republican met and…

Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of State issued its detailed report on the status of “Trafficking in Persons” in every country of the world, Albania to Zimbabwe. It ranks each country as Tier 1, Tier 2. or Tier 3….

He is the only one of our presidents to have been born on the Fourth of July (1872 to be exact). Calvin Coolidge, the 30th of our 43 presidents was deeply patriotic and revered the basic institutions of the nation,…

“I’m in Rio for the carnival,” said the voice on the telephone. It was Henny-Penny “You’re a few weeks late,” I said. MS. H-P: I don’t mean that Carnival, I mean the annual Doomsayers’ Carnival, where they get together to…

John F. Kennedy once said of Washington, “It has Northern charm and Southern efficiency.” That, of course, was when it was a sleepy place lacking much air conditioning and before the bureaucratic explosion brought on by Lyndon Johnson’s and Richard…

Say “Holland” or “The Netherlands” and we think of tulips, good cheese, and an upright, hard-working population engaged in international trade for centuries. Most Dutch match that description, but more than a few are engaged in a thoroughly despicable activity:…

“Walker Survives Wisconsin Recall Vote,” read the tepid headline in Wednesday’s New York Times. Governor Scott Walker, however, did much more than survive. He defeated his rival, Tom Barrett, convincingly. His lieutenant governor did the same in her recall election….

Like Lazarus, the international Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) keeps rising from the dead. Back in the mid-1970s its proponents first touted it as a way to bring order to the use of the world’s oceans in navigation, rights…

Everyone who follows presidential politics agrees that Ohio will be a battleground state again this year. President Obama has visited there numerous times in recent months and formally opened his reelection campaign at Ohio State University. Mitt Romney knows that…