While the United States consumes a disproportionate share of global resources devoted to medical care, this global share is shrinking.

Senator Ted Kennedy knew and expressed the sorrow of human life.

"My rival in this race,” President Obama announced early in 2007, “is not other candidates. It’s cynicism.” It’s now clear that what he meant by this was other people’s cynicism — not his own.

At this event, one of a series of Nixon Legacy Forums sponsored by the Richard Nixon Foundation, four members of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's White House staff will discuss his relations with Nixon and their collaborations on welfare reform, education policy, and other issues.

The temptation on Capitol Hill is for Republicans to just crow briefly that "we told you so," issue a few press releases, hold a hearing or two, and then wait for another low-hanging rotten fruit of ObamaCare to fall off the tree through the forces of economic and political gravity. They should instead think more strategically about this opportunity.

The royal status the Kennedys temporarily achieved will seem bizarre to future generations--perhaps it already does even for those of us who can remember the 1960s.

Since his death on Feb. 17 at age 96, the tributes have flowed to Arnold Beichman, the legendary anti-Communist journalist.

None of the candidates in the Fox News/Google debate has shown great strength at the polls in his or her home state. They have tended to underperform rather than overperform the base Republican vote in seriously contested races.