The term "political science" used to mean public policy studied not just as opinion but based on empirical, documentable evidence. Today it's come to mean something darker--the subversion of science in the hands of ideologues committed to manipulating public policy to their end. This new, and disheartening use of the...

Only domestic politics can explain two of the Obama administration's most controversial moves: exporting illegal guns to Mexico and balking at building an oil pipeline from Canada.

Putting the treaty against counterfeit medicines under the auspices of the UN Office of Drugs and Crime is on balance with a poor idea. WHO is, for now, still the best institution under which to negotiate and achieve a treaty for improving the quality of medicines.

Snus in particular, and smokeless tobacco in general, provide clear, lifesaving advantages over smoking that antitobacco activists refuse to acknowledge.

The surgeon general recentlytold Congress that "there is no significant scientific evidence that suggests smokeless tobacco is a safer alternative to cigarettes"; this is patently false.

Instead of facing the foreclosure crisis head-on, President Barack Obama has chosen a terrible time to finally discover the virtue of federal restraint and mostly deferred to state attorneys general.

If the anti-tobacco community really thinks higher prices are good for smokers, it shouldwork on passinga tax law instead of squiggling past Congress by bringing lawsuits.

A new policy in Zimbabwe effectively means that all of Zimbabwe's foreign-owned industries are to be nationalized, which may well be the final straw for what's left of Zimbabwe's economy.