The United States can avoid national security threats by being better prepared for pandemic flu.

Nothing excites the base of the Democratic Party—or gets more free media—than wildly implausible hysterics over racism, even when there's so little evidence to support the claim.

My first recoverable memory is of sitting on the back porch under candlelight in the spring of 1936, the evening after the flood of that year, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

The potential for arecord-breaking U.S. current-account deficit--mostly the trade deficit--has business writers from here to Shanghai hitting their exclamation keys.

This book is a sobering and important look at the nation's basic federal education law governing K-12 schools.

We can only hope the absence of an al Qaeda attack on American soil during the last two years will not lull us back into our pre-September 11 stupor.

Feminist criticism of literature tears down the accumulated wisdom of generations and assaults all that makes a literary imagination possible.