Consumers have been in the doldrums throughout this weak recovery, but the mood has gone from sour to despairing in recent months. The numbers have been so bad that the relatively obscure "Index of Consumer Sentiment" constructed by the University of Michigan has begun to receive the attention of political handicappers.

This week, America lost the most influential social scientist of the past 100 years. James Q. Wilson died at the age of 80.

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Timothy Naftali of Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, and author of George H.W. Bush and Khrushchev's Cold War will deliver the January Bradley Lecture.

Americans have a hard time being realists. George Herbert Walker Bush was no...

The story of how the rhythms, tenor, and characteristics of the Sino-American relationship began is recalled in vivid detail and with characteristic eloquence by Kissinger in his new book, On China.

The Obama administration is welcoming China's presumptive next leader, Xi Jinping. But how can it make good policy when the strategy is a mess?

Why does Mitt Romney sound so corny? It seems to me that Romney missed one experience which changed the outlook and even the vocabulary of most of his schoolmates. This is a man who never experienced the '60s. You know what I mean: peace demonstrations, dope smoking, ironic detachment, all that.

Richard Nixon, Bob Finch, BobHaldeman and now Rosemary Woods are deceased. The "what if" speculation is interesting, but it is one where there will be no answer.

The combatants for tomorrow's ground-breaking general election TV debate in Britain could use advice from U.S. TV debates over the past fifty years.