Stephen Hawking argues that the laws of physics created the universe, but the question of what created the laws of faith is either beyond the limits of human thought or answered by faith, which may ultimately be the same answer.

The stimulus plan is bad news.

There can be little doubt that China has been manipulating its currency for competitive advantage.

Swiss ambassador Tim Guldimann's Iranian offer is not official diplomatic correspondence.

The frail Republican Party should notseek another Ronald Reagan as its candidate for president in 2008.

Continuity of government measure H. R. 2844 looks like it will be rammed onto the House floor without serious consideration of ways to fix its key problems.

The forlorn and increasingly desperate climate campaign achieved a new level of ineptitude last week when what had looked like a minor embarrassment for one of its critics​—​the Chicago-based Heartland Institute​—​turned out to be a full-fledged catastrophe for itself. A moment’s reflection on the root of this episode points to why the climate campaign is out of (greenhouse) gas.

The United States has been in an extended "defense drawdown" since the end of the Cold War, reaping substantial "peace dividends" throughout the Clinton years, during the Obama years, and now under the Budget Control Act.