Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz are at a more than 20-year high after Iranian authorities threatened to close the 34-mile-wide channel through which more than one-third of the world's oil tanker traffic passes.

As a threat to the nation's health, television stands far higher than alcohol, drugs, or tobacco, and the worry is that it may be too late to do anything about it, since the addiction is all but universal.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act faces an existential test this spring. The Supreme Court will decide whether the law’s controversial requirement that everyone purchase health insurance – the individual mandate – is unconstitutional.  But the issue transcends the scope of President’s Obama’s signature domestic policy reform. Indeed, the...

Are NGO claims that vinyl is potentially dangerous to human health irresponsible and overblown?

Futile blame-games and uncritical embrace of global warming alarmism can only impede the many valiant efforts to rebuild New Orleans.

Is there a compromise on campaign finance reform that could achieve broader support and satisfy the bottom line of reformers to improve the broken system?

Mark Helprin makes a powerful case for the candidacy of Sen. Dole ("Let Dole Lead," Feb. 2), but slips on an important detail in the debate over the flat tax.

President Obama entered the White House determined to renew diplomacy with Iran. During his campaign, he said he would meet the leaders of Iran "without preconditions.”