Obama's decision to campaign -- er, conduct official business -- on university campuses last week was not surprising. According to exit polls, there was no surge of young voters in 2008.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan has trashed Texas schools, but Texas gets great bang for the buck.

The comparison between Census results over the last 40 years to today tells us much about the country's present--and the shape of the future.

Unless pension accounting rules are updated, taxpayers in New Jersey and around the country are in for a shock when the pension bill comes due.

A people that respond with such intensity to Susan Boyle's story must still possess the sentiments that have been the source of American greatness.

There was a touch of starry-eyed celebrity worship that came with the election of President Barack Obama.

Many traveled to Gdansk last weekend to attend a conference marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the day Lech Walesa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Iraqi Kurdistan's leaders speak of democracy but have become drunk with power and disdainful of public accountability.