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:...

What's on the horizon for taxes? AEI's Aparna Mathur weighs in with the House Small Business Committee.

Obama administration officials have labeled the United Nations’ failure to act on Syria as “outrageous” and a “travesty”.  But that’s about all they’ve done about Syrian dictator Basher el Assad’s wanton murder of thousands of innocent Syrians.

American identity, character, and civic life are shaped by many things, but decisive among them are our national memories—of our long history, our triumphs and tragedies, our national aspirations and achievements. Crucial to the national memory are the words our forebears wrote, to show us who we are and what we might yet become.

Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner need to join together and put an end to damaging, out-of-control rhetoric.

If any evidence were ever needed that the president doesn't practice Chicago-style politics, it's with the Ground Zero mosque controversy.

Rubin reviews Mike Tucker's Hell is Over, Voices of the Kurds after Saddam.

Rapidly declining popular support for the Obama presidency and his party may suggest that the current political moment is much more significant than most people realize, as it seems that the basic political rules have changed.