THE first time I visited New Orleans, I was struck by the fact that many of the car registration plates had the phrase “Laissez Les Bons ...

As a GOP Senator, Alan Simpson attacked Social Security with insults and lies. Why has Washington overlooked his record?

Conspicuous by its absence in your laudatory obituary of Sen. Alan Simpson was any mention of the Wyoming Republican's ...

When I learned about former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson’s death at age 93, my encounters with one of the most influential Wyoming ...

The pain and damage are piling up. Will Republicans next raid Social Security and Medicaid to pay for tax cuts?

Former Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, speaks during a news conference, Sept. 12, 2011, at the National Press Club in Washington. Simpson has died at age 93. (Evan Vucci/AP) Simpson’s leap to the ...

But for Alan Simpson, I might have been a United States senator. I loved him anyway. I was the 1982 Democratic Party nominee for the Senate. Back then, Democrats had ...

When I learned about former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson’s death last Friday at age 93, my encounters with one of the most colorful and influential Wyoming politicians in the state’s ...

I've known this day was coming. The end of the road isn't far off when you live to be 93 years old. But it still hurts to say ...