Hope springs eternal among policy makers in Europe’s beleaguered periphery. At five minutes to midnight in Athens, and with a bank run having started in Madrid, these policy makers cling to the forlorn hope that somehow Germany is going to relent on its strong opposition to euro bonds.

Michael Rubin reviews Peter Galbraith's "The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End."

This book by Alan Viard and Robert Carroll proposes to completely replace the income tax system with a progressive consumption tax.

Is it panic time at Obama headquarters in Chicago? You might get that impression from watching events -- and the polls -- over the past few weeks.

We are not in a cold war with China. That is too simple a metaphor to describe the state of Sino-American relations.

The number of schools ranked highly in guides such as Barron's Profiles of American Colleges is increasing, without any evidence that these schools' instructional quality is also increasing. Applicants and their families should be wary of letting these rankings serve as the main criteria in their college decisions.

The latest installment of ObamaCare is a scheme that’s uprooting the elderly poor and disabled who get care under Medicare and herding many into state-run Medicaid plans.

This book systematically assesses key constitutional developments in the land-use field during the 1980s and early 1990sin state and federal supreme courts.