Weil's Notes from a Corner of the Country

Everybody seems to like hybrids. They are often better than the originals that were combined to make them.     Hybrid flowers are among th...

The country is now dealing with a tax issue that seems to mix the supposedly neutral Internal Revenue Service and partisan politics. ...

This was the year when the power of the filibuster, the 96-year-old parliamentary maneuver that lets the minority control the Senate, w...

Republicans and Democrats have both proposed federal budgets, the first time in years that each has come up a plan. Both parties ca...

The obstacles to Maine tax reform illustrate almost perfectly the seeming impossibility of achieving bipartisan political solutions. ...