Even before losing four of this week’s five presidential primaries, Bernie Sanders toned down direct criticism of rival Hillary Clinton’s qualifications and judgment. Bu...
The U.S. Congress may be blowing its chance to help bring to an end a painfully long-running saga: the financial implosion of Puerto Rico.
House Speaker Paul Ryan is wor...
We have our choice of several reality TV series depicting life in the Alaskan wilderness. The lifestyle of rugged self-dependence appeals to our culture, which seems pre...
Free trade? Catch that thing. Wrap it up. Throw it in the garbage.
That’s the tune of much of the presidential campaign this year and it leaves us wondering what would ...
In 2002, two years before the blockbuster 9/11 Commission report provoked by the events of that day, a bipartisan congressional task force published an 838-page report o...
Believe it or not, the Republican Party significantly reformed its primary election system this year to avoid pitfalls that arose in 2012. It authorized fewer debates, a...
It is said government gets things done at the intersection of overlapping self-interests. Or to put it more simply, we make progress when and where there’s enough agreem...
Last week, China announced that it plans to land a rover on Mars by 2020. The Russian Federal Space Agency is working with the European Space Agency. Every major power i...
During an era of headline-grabbing advances in medicine, the United States is experiencing a health cataclysm.Rich Lowry is editor of The National Review.
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In every American town that has a United Way campaign, there's an axiom that reflects the fragility in the annual fundraiser: If you give the people any reason to withho...
