Review of No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning, by Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom.

The racial gap in academic achievement is the most important source of ongoing racial inequality in the United States today. Black and Latino students typically leave high school with academic skills no better than those of the average white and or Asian eighth-grader. That inequality is morally unacceptable, and it...

With their post-election rationalizations and excuses fortheir losses, it is clear thatDemocrats are not ready abandon either their unpopular policies or their illusions.

Mitt Romney handed President Obama a political gift this weekend, when his campaign announced that he would not file his tax return on time. Romney made the announcement at 5 p.m. on Friday — the time politicians usually put out bad news they hope no one will notice. Team Obama noticed all right

John Boehner and Eric Cantor want to see Congress approve or disapprove major agency resolutions. Democrats will offer a grab bag of excuses for why this should not be done.

As critics see it, the loss of our common culture is a result not of cultural changes but of shifts in policy and the economy. There are two problems with this line of argument.

Let’s play "Jeopardy." Round One: Science Literacy. Category: Evolution. For $500: Which is the largest demographic group to reject Darwin’s theory of evolution?”

According to Chris Mooney’s best selling new book, The Republican Brain, a follow up to his 2007 polemic The Republican War on Science, the answer is easy:...

Today with GDP growth slowing, the rupee softening and the stock market in a funk, it's time to reassess Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's record.