A 9 percent drop in the Shanghai stock market triggered a 3.3 percent sell-off in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Tuesday. It is a sign of how the rise of China as a...
It's a formidable list: a smaller legislature, term limits, open records laws, more stringent lobbyist regulations, a non-partisan commission for legislative redistricti...
Tuesday's plunge in U.S. stocks was an oddity and a harbinger of nothing much at all, one of President Bush's top economic aides pronounced Wednesday as the markets reco...
From Selma to Obama
This Sunday, as politicians and civil rights activists commemorate "Bloody Sunday," Selma, Ala., once again becomes home to a perhaps historic shift ...
The other day, a friend asked, "Is it just me, or are the wheels coming off the world?" It's not him — the wheels are coming off. And that was true before reports of an ...
Back in the 1970s, the humor magazine National Lampoon wrote a commentary on corporate influence in America titled "We're Changing the Name of the Country to Exxon."
It ...
Too bad it's over.
While it lasted, the global-warming debate was an entertaining free-for-all. Then this month the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change came o...
Healthy animals are becoming a major threat to sick humans — especially to the growing number of people infected with bacteria resistant to commonly used antibiotics.
Hu...
WASHINGTON—How appropriate that the presidential campaign drama that some already are calling "Geffengate" and "Hilla-Bama," among other nicknames, happened to break dur...
The New Yorker reported last week that the dean of West Point took it upon himself to help put an end to abusive — i.e. torturous — interrogation techniques. He and some...
