Ronald Reagan signed the legislation making Martin Luther King’s birthday a national holiday in November 1983. In January that year, public opinion was divided, with 47 percent in favor of the holiday and 48 percent opposed in an ABC News/Washington Post poll. In an October 1983 Harris poll, however, 59 percent supported it.

What do America’s memorials and monuments tell us about our nation and our identity as citizens? How should we memorialize past events and individuals?

Reform of Medicare is inevitable given the current debt limit debate. Democrats introduced a plan to reduce spending on Medicare Part D based on the presumption that manufacturers make extraordinary profits from the government. This means premiums for seniors and government spending on Medicare will likely increase, offsetting any savings.

America's freedoms aren't in danger from Islamists, but we can't ignore Islamist influences on Muslim-American organizations.

Fraud and abuse in America's health care system costs taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars a year--more than enough to pay for high quality private health insurance for every uninsured American.

Under pressure from environmentalists, the coal industry and its supporters are claiming that their fuel can be clean.

For the first time in 20 years, Saudi Arabia has named an ambassador to Iraq. For years the Saudis resisted U.S. entreaties to take this step, and the current relationship between these two most important Arab countries in the Gulf has not been warm, so the timing is curious and...

A review of The Man Who WouldBe King by Ben MacIntyre Farrar.