Articles by Robert Zaller

Feb. 13 was a red-letter day in Pennsylvania. On that day, newly elected Gov. Thomas Wolf declared a moratorium on executions in the Commonwealth. It…

The New York Times carried a pair of stories over the past week that tells you all you need to know about the present state…

The talk at Drexel University this week by the distinguished architecture critic and historian Witold Rybczynski left me with a question I didn’t get a…

There aren’t many things I agree with Antonin Scalia about, and even fewer with Clarence Thomas. But the Supreme Court justices’ refusal to attend the…

Officially, the war in Afghanistan that began on Oct. 7, 2001 has ended. In a secret ceremony last month — secret because of fear of…

Paul Krugman has a Nobel Prize in economics. I don’t. He writes for a wide audience in The New York Times. I write for a…

Come each November, something called “Open Enrollment” comes along at Drexel. You can elect to buy into any changes in your benefits that are offered…

It’s been quite a year: Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Ebola and the Republican Party taking control of the U.S. Senate. Oh, and unstoppable…

As everyone knows, there was a considerable brain drain from Nazi Germany in the 1930s as leading artists and scientists, many of them Jewish, sought…

Three years ago, as we were ending our disastrous war in Iraq, Barack Obama, who first emerged on the national scene by warning against it…