With the threat of a veto hanging over its head, the National Defense Authorization bill heads to the House floor today for debate. Among the provisions are several dealing with the question of a nuclear weapons armed Iran, and what the United States should do to avert a crisis, prepare to handle the threat, or eliminate the threat altogether.

Eighty-five percent of respondents favored a patients' bill of rights, butonly 41 percent would still favor it if it resulted in some companies ending health care coverage.

Until a few decades ago, James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, was probably the least appreciated great figure in American history.

The Nobel Peace Prize is the world’s most prestigious award, as Jay Nordlinger argues in this erudite and insightful history. He has written not only the go-to reference book for the prize and its laureates but also an important philosophical reflection on the nature of “peace” in modern times.

Contemporary Americans find it difficult not to take the Bill of Rights for granted as part of the Constitution; this is true even for those who are aware that the Constitution originally did not include it.

Liberals typically erupt in outrage if you suggest they don’t respect or understand the Constitution, let alone defend it.  But then they let slip that in fact they really don’t respect or understand the Constitution.

Perhaps it's the sweet California air, but the pervasive (though not universal) pessimism in biopharma these days is really bumming me out.  Consequently, I'd like to discuss three potential responses to difficult industry problems.