In this week of inaugurations and gaveling to order, a word about the man who, for the first time in 14 years, has not returned...

By the time you read this, someone will have organized Hawaii’s House of Representatives – maybe. And it may be Maui’s Joe Souki, the amiable...

Katherine Boo won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2012 for her first book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a...

Dan Inouye’s colleagues in the United States Senate honored him with a ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda, making him only the 32nd person in history...

In his lifetime, Dan Inouye did the seemingly impossible: He gave the profession of politics a good name. He didn’t do it by the current...

As I write, the fiscal dance apropos the fiscal cliff continues in our nation’s capital. We all know the moves. It’s not a complicated tango....

First came Black Friday, then Small Business Saturday followed by Cyber Monday. Out of fear engendered by television footage of last year’s Black Friday tramplings,...

At age 90, my mother-in-law doesn’t get around as well as she once did, so the past few elections she’s chosen to vote by mail....

Abraham Lincoln has been given to us in many forms. He’s the granite savior of the Union, watching over us as Washington’s most famous monument....

So the candidates, winners and losers alike, have taken down their signs. No one waves at us in the early morning light as we leave...