George Santayana famously said, “Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.” But when it comes to Russia and Ukraine, Western leaders can’t seem to decide whi...
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court began considering a proposition that will strike many Americans as bizarre: that large, for-profit businesses can refuse on religious groun...
Learning more about the causes of injury and death and recommending policies that might lengthen people’s lives have long been the mission of the public health community...
WASHINGTON — For the record, it’s worth noting that Russia’s swift seizure of Crimea confounds and contradicts one of the hopeful axioms of conventional wisdom.
The pres...
Did anyone believe for a moment that an Army brigadier general was going to go to prison and lose his considerable pension for abusing a subordinate who was his longtime...
Last week, before Vladimir Putin annexed the Ukrainian region of Crimea to Russia, I asked a leading Putinologist, Fiona Hill of the Brookings Institution, what the Russ...
There are unmistakable echoes of the Cold War in the air. President Barack Obama levied economic sanctions against Russia this week in retaliation for its aggression in ...
Last November, the Internal Revenue Service asked for public comments on proposed rules to rein in political activity by tax-exempt “social welfare” groups that don’t di...
So-called privileges of rank have taken on a perverse meaning in the U.S. military. Stunning tales of sexual assault at the highest levels of the service betray the grie...
More than a decade ago, General Motors discovered that its ignition systems were prone to sudden failure. The failure caused engines to shut down, even when cars were hu...
