Everyday illusions obscure our perceptions and cause us to place undeserved trust in our instincts and intuition, but illusion-filled narratives are how we understand life.

Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez has tried for 10 months to conceal the fact that he is losing his bout with cancer, determined to appear in command of his revolutionary regime and the nation's future. So why isn't anyone outside Venezuela paying attention?

While there might be symbolic appeal to the idea of China riding to Europe's rescue, the reality would be less romantic: a relatively poor country would be sending its savings to a collection of wealthy ones.

This book tells the fascinating story of the Internet's challenge to governmental rule in the 1990s, and the ensuing battles with governments around the world.

Tuesday, President Obama embraced the language of American exceptionalism--and harnessed it for a sustained argument in defense of activist government.

One year after the enactment of ObamaCare, the broader American public remains ready to return more than just a few of the defective or unwanted aspects of the law--it wants a divorce of it entirely.

After decades of failed school reform, our education system needs to be reinvented.

Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty has run afoul of two fallacies with his new Green Energy Act.