If we hope to have a viable banking industry in the future, the Volcker Rule - among many other provisions of the Dodd-Frank should be revisited now.

At this Bradley Lecture, Walter Russell Mead will discuss why the core institutions, ideas and expectations that shaped American life for the 60 years after the New Deal don’t work anymore.

There remains a widely perceived notion—still commonly held within intellectual, academic, and policy circles in the West and elsewhere—that ―Muslim societies are especially resistant to embarking upon the path of demographic and familial change. But such notions speak to a bygone era

The Supreme Court has just agreed to take on the case of Fisher v. University of Texas. Abigail Fisher, a white woman, argues that she has been a victim of the university's race-conscious admission policies; the university contends that its drive for racial and ethnic diversity is educationally enriching -- a benefit to all students.

The Supreme Court's decision in Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Eric Holder, Jr., Attorney General, rests on very narrow grounds.

The effort to build up conservatives of the past is little more than a feint to tear down the conservatives of the present.

Civil rights groups are trying to get the court to force states to increase the number of safe Democratic districts.

New Yorkers can cheer yesterday's decision by Amtrak's board to dismiss the railroad's president, David Gunn, and begin a search for "a leader with vision and experience."