On October 31, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Community Mental Health Centers Act, through which psychiatric patients would be treated in small community clinics rather than in large expensive state hospitals. Though the act promised to improve conditions and save millions of dollars, it mostly added...

The federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has released its Consensus Statement of Mental Health Recovery. It is a travesty of psychiatric care.

The president"s mental-health commission in denial.

Tennessee's textbook at issue in the Scopes Monkey Trial promotes Darwinian biology--and racial eugenics.

What Tocqueville noticed about America's uniqueness 170 plus years ago remains even more valid today as the United States attempts to advance the cause of liberty and freedom.

Adaunting reminder of the caution with which the United States must proceed in its admirable efforts to plant democracies in rocky soil.

Areview of what the government is doing to respond to the Gulf Coast devastation in order to assess the adequacy and cost-effectiveness of the response.

What Obama does to put the United States' own house in order will benefit our neighbors more than anything he can do right now for the region.