WASHINGTON — For weeks, Army Gen. Ray Odierno had passionately pressed his point with Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates: President Obama’s plan to release photographs depicting the alleged ...

Robert Underwood claims it’s racism to say that Guam is not ready for self-determination and he’s wrong. It’s pragmatism. When a majority of our population fears the local government and its ...

Pragmatism as an organized method was established by Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), William James (1842-1910), and other notable figures, including Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935).

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has reputation for pragmatism. LITTLE ROCK -- During Mike Huckabee's decade as governor, Arkansas got new roads, a revamped state school system, a children's ...

But if pragmatism is a painful process of continually correcting errors, ideology is a blissful path of being oblivious to them. The Vietnam War is a case in point.

In Buffalo, the Democratic nominee for mayor was a self-proclaimed socialist. In Seattle, one of two main mayoral contenders once backed slashing the police budget by half.

GAY rights, public services and experience. Up and down the ballot voters showed little appetite for nonsense and distractions. Pragmatism was the victor in early vote counting. Initiative 1033 ...

Pragmatism. In the case of both the EDF and NextGen, the goal is to slowly build a new Congress that is more receptive to arguments about the need for action on global warming.