We need a Republican president — not to fix the economy, but to get the credit.

The process in which the voices of voters as registered in elections and polls are transformed into changes in public policy is rough and ready, with plenty of trial and error. But for all its imperfections the political market seems to work.

Two years after its passage, President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act remains a hot-button issue. Does the law's requirement that every American obtain health insurance violate the constitution?

It would be ironic if the television debates, which began by imposing an expectation--almost an obligation--of courtesy on the combatants, were to end in more bitterness between the parties.

While the “lurch to the left” in the Americas may be a simplistic reading of recent events in the region--as left-of-center leaders govern moderately and responsibly in Brazil, Chile, and Peru, for example--Venezuela’s firebrand, Hugo Chávez, and his acolytes in South America continue to tear down democratic institutions to put...

Why do Americans seem to be overlooking global warming as a serious policy issue?

A brief examination of the relationship between the carbon tax issueand the American coal industry.