The majority of Americans disagree with the current administration's redistributionist philosophy and feel that taxes are already too high, even for the rich.

With all the recent talk in France and Germany about creating an industrial policy to promote national champions, I cannot help feeling that I am in a time warp. I have to pinch myself to make sure that I am not back in the 1960s, 1970s or 1980s. Or even under the mercantilist regime of Jean Baptiste Colbert in King Louis XIV's France.

The Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 calls for $168 billion in tax rebates that will hopefully act as a stimulus in the slow economy.

Exacerbation of excess supply in the world economy as U.S. demand growth slows would be reflected in market prices.

Background on the British Indian agency that managed telegraph lines in Iran in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The dramatic events in Venezuela last month, including widespread public protest leading to the apparent resignation of strongman president Hugo Chávez, willkeep armchair analysts busy.

Cuba alone has managed to marry the cult of the messianic leader, perhaps the oldest political tendency in Latin American politics, to the totalitarian principle.

This nation’s defensesare adequate to cope with the growing dangers we face from hostile powers possessing weapons of mass destruction and effective means of delivery.