Here are a couple of things to keep in mind about Newt Gingrich, as he leads in polls for the Republican presidential nomination nationally and in Iowa and South Carolina and may be threatening Mitt Romney's lead in New Hampshire. One is that he is an autodidact. A second is that he has incredible perseverance.

There are 24 people who are beneficiaries of nontrivial presidential buzz, but only five are likely to emerge as true candidates.

Ultimately, immigration policy decides which kinds of qualities our immigrants possess.

While the Obama admistration's response to the Gulf spill has been plagued by federal failures, Obama has been given a free ride from the media, a stark contrast to its treatment of George W. Bush in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

President Obama's response to the Gulf oil spill is an unflattering example of ineffective thuggery, as he orders around BP's executives, ignores due process, and caters to his union supporters.

Prior research is silent about the value of information privacy in the presence of potential benefits from sharing personally identifiable information.

It is almost a law of politics that a defeated political party recoils upon its political base.

Why would Barack Obama want to build on a system with poor outcomes?