While the mandate question holds great constitutional interest, the outcome won't greatly affect Obamacare's operation one way or the other. The Medicaid question, in contrast, is crucial.

An Obama policy that continues the withdrawal of U.S. forces down to zero in Iraq would unquestionably strengthen Iran.

Whether Ahmadinejad is impeached or not, the latest conflict among the civilian leaders has made the IRGC the most important arbiter of power in the Islamic Republic.

Losing money is embarrassing. And an embarrassed Jamie Dimon publicly admitted that J.P. Morgan Chase goofed. Three senior executives lost their jobs as a result. But politicians and regulators in Washington are rushing to leverage the bank's misfortune for their own gain.

Jon Entine investigates the long-running saga about the environmental impact of Texaco’s oil operations in Ecuador 20 years ago and who is to blame.

China's leaders are calculating that it pays to be populist and anti-Western, but they are well aware of how many of its citizens are unhappy with a government whose rule is marked by increasing levels of corruption and inequality.

As a future Republican president or Republican Congress struggles with health care costs a decade from now, he or she or they may well look back on 2009 as a chance to hold the line on health costs and let the Democrats take the blame.

A Scott Brown victory would leave Democrats with three unappealing options to get their health reform plan enacted.