Everyone knows presidents have larger-than-life size egos. It goes with the job. But changes on the official White House website reveal that we've never had a self-regarding narcissist quite like the oval Office's current occupant.

The article tells of the life story of Wladyslaw Bartoszewski. He was twice the foreign minister of Poland, an author and historian, an anti-Communist dissident and ideologue of the Solidarity movement.

This novel is a tour-de-force about endurance, survival, transformation, and rebirth. Washington and his Continental Army, against all odds, will be forged into a fighting force that will win a revolution.

"Taking the Government out of Housing Finance: Principles for Reforming the Housing Finance Market" is designed to provide common ground around which a bipartisan agreement may be forged. Join us for the first presentation of this document and a chance to ask questions and participate in a general discussion.

Have efforts to cultivate "vocational" citizenship skills failed to satisfy the broader obligation of schools to cultivate the next generation of citizens and civic leaders?

Now that it seems a certainty that Russia is headed for (at least) 12 more years of Putinism, alarm bells ought to be sounding. Why? Because by every indicator--macroeconomic, political, social--the system that Putin forged in the early 2000s is all but exhausted and is driving the country toward a dead end.

A neuroscientist recalls how a host of substances took over his life and how, at last, he learned to impose new patterns of thought and behavior.

Not many people noticed during the run up to the Iowa caucuses and last year's payroll tax fight that a far more important, and potentially game-changing, resolution passed the Senate at the end of 2011.