Baghdad is all atwitter over the P-5+1 talks with Iran beginning today. A sandstorm kept many European and Western diplomats from landing, but the Iranians were out in full force, with Iranian negotiator Saeed Jalili leading the way.

The New Deal failed to reduce unemployment, and the policies of the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress since the financial crisis look to be a repeat performance.

Now after his party's 2010 shellacking, incumbent Barack Obama seems to have discovered the virtues of a "growing economy."

Senate Republicans know that government housing policies were the principle cause of the financial crisis, but have been unwilling to confront that problem or to filibuster further financial regulation.

Barack Obama's supporters are predicting that he will give us a new New Deal. To see what that might mean, let's look back on the original.

Neither Herbert Hoover nor Franklin D. Roosevelt promulgated policies that worked.

Here is another good news/bad news column about the 112th Congress.

Many Americans see trade as a peril rather than an opportunity.