Moderate drinking is, for most people, a lot better than abstinence.

Al Armendariz, the top Environmental Protection Agency official in the oil-rich Southwest region, resigned from his post, effective Monday. It’s the latest twist in the never-ending and increasingly ugly fracking fracas. A two-year old video had surfaced last week (and since pulled) featuring Armendariz comparing his “philosophy of enforcement” to...

A brief analysis of current public opinion on wasted work time, drinking, and more.

Absent competition, whether water systems are owned by private firms or governments may, on average, simply not matter much.

Diplomacy can never supplant the importance of military victory. Obama may want to bring the troops home, but the diplomacy-first strategy hampers peace. As the history of drinking tea with the Taliban shows, talk is not only cheap; it is deadly.

Advocacy journalists sitr up unwarranted hysteria over a weed-killer made to save farmers over $2 billion.

The term "political science" used to mean public policy studied not just as opinion but based on empirical, documentable evidence. Today it's come to mean something darker--the subversion of science in the hands of ideologues committed to manipulating public policy to their end. This new, and disheartening use of the...

If demand falls because of airline tariff increases, it is economy class holiday-makers who will probably be hardest hit, affecting not only airlines but the entire tourism industry.