U.S. occupation of Iraq has made it a magnet for terrorism. Has this increased global terrorism or made it more easy to defeat?

The elites' excusing of tyranny has real-world consequences, as it leads to appeasement and weakness. The intellectual class that had come to regard Qaddafi as a more or less normal ruler with potentially reasonable or liberal inclinations has no such excuse, and their self-deception has had the consequence of enabling the policy incoherence of our political leaders.

At first glance, the new debt-ceiling law looks like a missed opportunity to address our nation's most pressing fiscal challenge. Fortunately, the opportunity to tackle this problem hasn't been lost, only deferred.

Americans are coping with the recession, but many in the middle class report they are worried about staying there.

The late Dan Rostenkowski and Ted Stevens were far from perfect, but a damn sight better than the self-righteous ideologues and hyperambitious loudmouths who make up too many of today's best-known lawmakers.

While it is important to unmask crooked analysts, the current hysteria is ultimately bad for markets--especially for small investors.

Insights into Iran can be found in five books by experts in the field.

Every bear market breeds scapegoats, and this time around, politicians are pointing at stock analysts.