The importance of Iran’s March 2 parliamentary elections was not so much in their function to choose a new Majlis but rather because they were the first nationwide poll since widespread fraud during the 2009 presidential election sparked the largest protests Iran had witnessed since the Islamic Revolution.

Desmond Lachman explains the Greek and Eurozone debt crisis.

The value of the Egyptian alliance is less than meets the eye.

When rites of passage disappear from public life, civilization does as well, and one result is young men running amok.

With all the smoke from those thousands of burning cars in the rioting suburbs, the French have now completely blown their targets for carbon emissions under the Kyoto Protocol.

City workers protesting budget cuts may have delayed the blizzard cleanup in New York City.

Just as with Horton, the people in our policy debates who spend their time pointing to the not seen, are often ridiculed, slandered, and disrespected. Bastiat observed that when government goes beyond referring free-enterprise to actively interfering with it, the consequences fall into two categories: what is seen, and what is not seen.

If the United States continues the trend toward big government, the private sector will bear a heavier tax burden far into the future, a prospect that could have devastating consequences for the economy.