In a recent letter, Martin Lobel describes as "intellectually bankrupt" our arguments against S. 940 and S. 2204, two recent bills that would have imposed unfavorable tax rules on five large oil companies that would not have applied to other taxpayers. Unfortunately, Lobel mischaracterizes our analysis of why the bills violate the rule of law.

Charles Murray has prepared a public-use Excel file containing the data on SuperZips and the rest of America's zip codes that he discusses in his new book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010.

On Feb. 15, Leslie Moonves, the brilliant CEO of CBS, gave a piece of good news to investors — there would be an addition to the bottom line in 2012 of about $190 million, thanks to huge spending on political commercials coming into the network and its owned and operated...

The SEC has a statutory obligation to consider efficiency, competition and capital formation when it makes its rules, and it violated the APA by failing to do so.

Sy Hersh's latest report inThe New Yorker regardingU.S. missions in Iran is inaccurate.

In a world of limited resources, more serious problems will get shortchanged if risks from air pollution continue to be overestimated.

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

For most of 2012, President Obama has been running in the Democratic primary. I know that seems odd, given that he’s essentially running unopposed. But that's not what I'm talking about.