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.

The humanity of unborn babies will define the country's continuing abortion debate for the next several years.

Contrary to the popular misconception, the growth rate of national health spending has been dropping for a decade.

There is no way to prepare for a passage to India--one must surrender to the chaos and feel helpless at the poverty and desperation of the vast mass of people here.

It's well and good to worry about Pyongyang's nuclear capability, but it also matters for reasons the West seems disinclined to think about.

One of the main sources of the stalemate on the race debate in America today is the belief that poor black Americans are incapable of playing a significant part in changing their own lives.

Baseball teams now routinely use statistics to put better players on the field for less money. Our health care system needs a similar revolution.

Yet another food scandal is gripping China--tons of melamine-contaminated milk products were seized from warehouses in Chongqing. The milk problem is the the tenth serious food scandal in just the past few years. It provides more evidence of the inability of China's officials, corporations, and consumers to prevent lethal production.