This is the season of generational twaddle. At graduation ceremonies across the country, politicians, authors, actors, and businessmen take to the stage to tell young people they are fantastic simply because they are young. This year, the ritual is more pathetic than usual because there’s a presidential election in the offing.

There's a lot Washington could do to foster job creation, like reforming the nation's regulatory state, the EPA, a corporate income tax cut and encouraging startups.

The idea that freedom and Christianity are inherently incompatible is misconceived as during medieval Western Europe, the era in which Christianity expressed its influence on society more than any other, most of the rights and freedoms that constitute civil life today put down their roots.

An oddity due to the Cost of Living Adjustment to Social Security demonstrates the need for simplifying Social Security's structure.

The illegal immigration problem is going away.That's the conclusion I draw from the latest report of the Pew Hispanic Center on Mexican immigration to the United States.Pew's demographers have carefully combed through statistics compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau, the Department of Homeland Security and the...

It is time for Congress to adjust the Social Security benefit formula to make sure that neither unintended windfalls nor penalties take place.

Arthur C. Brooks was a Seattle-born liberal, but today he is president of the American Enterprise Institute, a center-right economic think tank in Washington, D.C.Brooks sees two competing visions for America’s future. To him, our excessive government spending and regulations have pushed us near a tipping point,...

The news that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula nearly blew up a US aircraft last week is a reminder of its continuing strength.