Let us continue the efforts to improve history instruction in our schools, but while we work on that, let us also tellchildren the stories that might otherwise go untold.

In the second edition of "Women's Figures," author Diana Furchtgott-Roth shatters the myth of the wage gap, alleging that women are continuing to gain ground relative to men. Preferential policies towards women are undermining America's notion of meritocracy and are actually calling into question the value of women's earned achievements.

For Barack Obama’s supporters on the left, to say his policy choices have been a disappointment would be an understatement. Explaining how this came about is Jack Goldsmith’s provocative new book.

Like all our political institutions, the presidency has evolved with the growth of the nation and the pace of change in the modern world. Three key changes come to mind.

Many Republican House members and the bloggers and Tea Partiers who cheered their victory in gaining a majority in November 2010 seem to be seething with discontent and eager for confrontation.They believe, reasonably, that that victory represented a repudiation of the vast expansion of government by the Obama...

The October 1 operational launch of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), on the eve of a new American presidential administration, provides an unprecedented opportunity to reshape U.S. strategy toward Africa. Significant attention has been devoted to the structure and functions of AFRICOM--and to its strategic communications challenges. Less thought, however, has...

Many of the critics of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and other legislation seeking to combat intellectual property violations on the Internet, say they are fighting efforts to “censor” the web. SOPA is many things, but if words still have meaning it cannot be fruitfully described as censorship.

Two recent, seemingly unrelated events weigh heavily on the question of whether America will remain able to protect its national security or languish in failed policies and a federal debt crisis that has led to our credit rating being downgraded.