The finance minister of Ireland announced a plan to ransom the hostage economy. Others should follow suit.

The latest evidence from the economics literature shows that steep economic drops might actually portend good news ahead.

Obama wanted to raise capital gains rates even if the government got less revenue because of "fairness." Evidently he likes taking people's money away. What he doesn't explain is why this makes anyone better off.

The explanation for China's international rudeness is a threefold recipe for mischief: greater military power combined with leadership weakness and a xenophobic nationalism that China's leadership created.

Last week's jobs report shocked just about everybody. If the unemployment rate drops again in December, don't be surprised.

Ashameful Congress is characterizedby three recent embarrassments.

The tea party is hostile toward the New Elite, charging that elites are isolated from mainstream America and ignorant about the lives of ordinary Americans. Those allegations have merit.

Against Islamic reactionaries stand many other Muslims to whom free inquiry offers emancipation and progress.