All major EPA decisions are contentious, but the current flurry of regulatory initiatives raises unusually serious issues of costs and benefits, feasibility, methodology, and agency discretion.

Probation violates the most important reason for punishment: the moral obligation to make wrongdoers pay a price.

Budgetary allotments for U.S. regulatory agencies provide a good measure of the increasing size of government as well as of the increasingly complex regulatory regime with which American businesses, workers, and consumers must comply. Americans are further burdened by a complicated tax code created by an increasing number of tax...

Russia's continued drops in production, growing unemployment, and deeper impoverishment all converge in one economic, social, and political area: the country's 460 company towns.

The twentieth anniversary of the beginning of the Russian revolution is a fitting occasion to assess the true scale and the impact of the national spiritual liberation known as glasnost.

To understand Vladimir Putin, we must understand his view of Russian history.

Russia's invasion of Georgia was far more than a singular emergency operation.