The dirty little secret of American healthcare is that the mandate wouldn’t save taxpayers a dime. Why? Because the tax subsidies for people with health insurance are bigger than the unpaid medical bills left behind by the uninsured.

We need a Republican president — not to fix the economy, but to get the credit.

We have to face a key reality: Well-intentioned but disastrous mistakes are made by very intelligent, well-educated, highly informed people, backed by vast computing power and reams of data, but wrong nonetheless.

Today with GDP growth slowing, the rupee softening and the stock market in a funk, it's time to reassess Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's record.

The Obama administration will need to decide whether, on trade issues, it has now cast its lot with a coalition of pro-trade Republicans and internationalist Democrats, or whether it has pushed its labor allies as far as it dares.

The weakest part of our political system is the presidential nomination process. And it's not coincidental that it's the part of the federal system that finds least guidance in the Constitution.

When will Obama admit he supports energy rationing? The real problem with the White House's attitude toward oil, and energy generally, is how deeply ideological it is. Few presidents have talked a bigger game about pragmatism while pursuing a dogmatic agenda.

Written fifty years ago, Vasily Grossman's "Life and Fate" has more to say about human freedom than any other novel of the century.