Congress rewrote patent law last year to reduce the number of unwarranted patents and curb abusive lawsuits by “patent trolls,” but the federal courts have done signific...
Here’s an issue that hasn’t been debated much in the presidential campaign but ought to be: How much should we spend on defense?
President Obama has proposed keeping the...
Twice in recent weeks, JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon has appeared before a congressional committee. He was summoned to talk about massive losses his bank su...
The United States has been at war with a shadowy, elusive enemy for more than a decade. It is a war without borders and front lines, fought by an enemy that hides behind...
WASHINGTON — As the Supreme Court rules this week on a variety of volatile issues, the question has come up: Is Barack Obama really running against the high court?
It mi...
The food stamp program needs to go on a healthy diet. The government currently provides massive subsidies to companies that produce unhealthy foods, and then provides in...
Microsoft is making its own tablet. Good.
The company announced last week that it will make a tablet called Surface, going head to head with Apple’s iPad.
The company ha...
WASHINGTON — We live in a world of broken models. To understand why world leaders can't easily fix the global economy, you have to realize that the economic models on wh...
The confrontation between the Obama administration and a House committee over documents related to the botched Fast and Furious investigation obviously has election-year...
Last week, former Sen. John C. Danforth criticized the direction of his Republican Party — and politics in general — in a speech to the Bar Association of Metropolitan S...
