It's comfortable living in a cocoon -- associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforce them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide.

Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972 the movie critic Pauline Kael said...

Public employee unions and tea party supporters have been gathering signatures to trigger recall elections of, respectively, Republican and Democratic state senators in what amounts to a referendum on Republican Governor Scott Walker's policies.

A dismal fiscal picture may force state officials to compromise performance-based educational reforms launched in the 1990s. A new Urban Institute study explores how school districts allocate education dollars in the face of changing fiscal conditions.

At this event, Jane Hannaway, director of the...

Maps of the latest poll averages for the Senate and governors' races show Republicans leading over almost all of the landmass of America, showing a Democratic Party shrinking back to its bicoastal base.

Wisconsin's results do not mean conservatives should abandon entitlement reform, but they should expect an energized Democratic base that will fight with all its might. They will need to talk persuasively about what entitlement reform means, stressing that it is absolutely necessary to preserve the lifetime security that entitlements provide.

Americans are more religious than Europeans; hence, our elections are more infused with religious themes.

Protesters against Obama's reforms are defending their excellent medical service. It's all about cost-cutting, not liberty.

Americans work more than Europeans, but they are not unhappierbecause ofit.