President-elect Obama and Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner (AP Photo by Charles Dharapak)

In a bizarre demonstration of how important confidence is to the health of the American economy, President George W. Bush and President-elect Barack Obama held back-to-back photo ops Monday, 90…

President George W. Bush made a veiled reference to Barack Obama while in Israel yesterday, setting  off a political firestorm back in the states. Bush said that people seeking talks with Iran and radical Islamic groups are like those who…

“This economy is going to come on,” Bush said today at World Wide Technology in Maryland Heights today. “I’m confident it will.”

The president is right. The economy will come back, and probably fairly soon. The question is: Will it lift the…

Here’s an advance look at one of the editorials that will appear in Wednesday’s Post-Dispatch and online at STLtoday.com/news/editorials.

DUELING BENEFITS

The word “schizophrenia” literally means “split mind.” That is, at best, an incomplete description of the disease. But it’s a strangely…

If you missed Frontline’s exceptional two-part “Bush’s War,” which was the subject of my 3/24 oped column, you still can watch the entire documentary online.

In fact, Frontline’s “Bush’s War” website also includes videos of more than 400 interviews – the complete interviews, not just…