Four days into the fast, thronged by joyous followers and watched by millions on television, Anna Hazare broke his fast after forcing the government to concede his key demand: to begin drafting a tough new anti-corruption bill.

It's comfortable living in a cocoon -- associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforce them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide.

Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972 the movie critic Pauline Kael said...

Harvard and Yale's new financial aid for middle and upper middle class studentsis a positive step but is no panacea for the higher-education cost explosion.

A remembrance of William F. Buckley Jr. and his impact on Yale University and wider society.

The Obama administration should have cancelled the summit as soon as it learned that China was going back on its word – that is, until Chen and his family could go back to the embassy and get out of China. As the Chen Guangcheng saga gets stranger and stranger, and becomes a major diplomatic embarrassment for the United States

The Constitution has the final word about which entities can have Congressional representation.

During the past three decades, bank supervision and regulation have failed. The banking industry—in the United States and worldwide—has been beset by an array of unprecedented and severe crises. At this AEI event, professor Charles Calomiris will lay out a 10-point "incentive-robust" framework for financial reform and a panel of experts will discuss his work.

Juan Cole is a major public figure. But political popularity and punditry should not substitute for research, accuracy and experience.