President Obama's decision to issue a blanket moratorium on deepwater oil drilling, inaccurately claiming the policy was recommended by scientists, underscores his fundamental misunderstanding of the role of science in policymaking.

The forlorn and increasingly desperate climate campaign achieved a new level of ineptitude last week when what had looked like a minor embarrassment for one of its critics​—​the Chicago-based Heartland Institute​—​turned out to be a full-fledged catastrophe for itself. A moment’s reflection on the root of this episode points to why the climate campaign is out of (greenhouse) gas.

President Obama and his team came into office insisting that they were on top of things and above mere ideological considerations. They were wrong.

Ronald Reagan's leadership was instrumental in the demoralization of the Soviet leadership that produced a Western victory without war and ended conflict between East and West.

How the Food and Drug Administration responds to criticism of its drug safety process will determine whether drug safety actually improves.

Atheists who think that believers are simple have a simplistic understanding of belief.

Mandatory expensing may negatively affect--rather than restore--investor confidence,and the economy will be placed seriously at risk.

The media has been rife with dramatic surmises about the impact of Leo Strauss’s political theorybut journalists have not devoted much time to a study of his corpus.