The Paycheck Fairness Act looks like common sense, but instead of helping women it will hurt all workers. The legislation, built on 30 years of spurious advocacy research, will impose unnecessary and onerous requirements on employers.

The massive underfunded pension funds of states and municipalities and the precarious status of the budgets of these entities have received wide publicity recently.

In the transition from an old dictator to a new one, some observers were losing faith in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, believing it had lost its magic touch in the arts of dissembling. Others had deeper faith, though, and they were rewarded last week when the State Department proudly announced the umpteenth breakthrough toward the goal of denuclearizing North Korea.

Pakistan's floods have worsened well beyond the capacity of the government to react and the Taliban and Islamist extremists are aiming to capitalize on the publicity that the relief effort is receiving.

Poll results and reports of political events on the ground, suggest that opinion is shifting and that the caucus results could look a lot different from the pre-Christmas polls.

The Obama administration has shown a disturbing tendency to criminalize business, representing a dramatic, unwarranted expansion of government power, which could have disastrous consequences.

If assassination was most noxious to the progressive left, the fact that a president they supported embraced the strategy has permanently nullified what otherwise would have been a staunchly partisan issue

If education philanthropists want to influence policy, then they must open themselves to more public debate about their  plans and goals.