“Americans spend too much on health care.” “We have worse health outcomes than our European counterparts.” Talking points such as these helped drive President Obama’s controversial and sweeping health care reform into law two years ago. But are they accurate?

Should the government negotiate the prices of pharmaceuticals covered by the new Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit? The incoming Democratic leadership in Congress has made Medicare price negotiation a top policy priority, but controversy rages over precisely what that might entail and whether it would reduce drug costs in...

As a bloody insurgency continues to ravage Iraq, it is vital that Sunni, Shia, and Kurds put aside sectarian divisions and work together to lay a solid foundation for a future Iraq in its new constitution. Will the Iraqi National Assembly succeed in framing a constitution before the August 15...

There is something radically different aboutthe 2000presidential campaign.

Essayist and author Joseph Epstein delivered the fifth of the 2003-2004 Bradley Lectures on January 12, 2004.

America needs to be heartened by our success in Iraq and seize a victory.

We should talk to our enemies on our own terms and not theirs, and with their captive peoples in mind.

Gradually lowering greenhouse gas emissions would be worthwhile were all states to join in the effort, but absent such strong, broad-based action, countries should explore other means of limiting harm from climate change.