When unionized businesses looked ahead to a world with Obama appointees administering labor laws, they decided to close up shop.

Despite reassurances about the fiscal stimulus package last February, the U.S. economy has lost around 3.5 million jobs since the start of 2009.

As Washington waits for President Obama’s plan on how to revive the economy and pull us out of our 9 percent unemployment rut, a growing chorus on the left is calling for us to go to war—or at least the economic equivalent of war.

The recession has pinned education policy in a tough spot: Our schools must both produce more skilled workers and do so as efficiently as possible. Innovative models of career and technical education could go a long way toward threading this needle.

Capping the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance will bend the curve of health care costs and make it more feasible for smaller firms to offer more cost-effective insurance to their workers.

With an economy seemingly on the precipice of a renewed recession, an angry conservative movement, and a disillusioned liberal base disappointed in his first term, Barack Obama's bid for reelection next year will, by all indications, be a tough, maybe even uphill fight. But the President can at least take some solace in a precedent from 64 years ago: Harry Truman's campaign for reelection in 1948.

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For a bankrupt country in the middle of hyperinflation, the discovery of a major diamond deposit in Zimbabwe in June 2006 should have been good news. Instead it has provided sustenance to a volatile and violent political elite that suppresses the majority. The power sharing/coalition government in Zimbabwe came into...

Americans want a president who is assertive in foreign affairs.