Venezuela's impeached supreme court justice, Judge Eladio Aponte-Aponte describes a judicial system that is systematically corrupted by Chávista cronies and military leaders who have made billions of dollars trafficking in cocaine and laundering the proceeds of an international criminal syndicate.

The House health care legislation would likely add to the fiscal deficit, giving holders of U.S. debt worldwide reason to be concerned.

It would be wrong for citizens and investors to be confident that the G-20 governments will deliver their promises to reverse the monetary expansion and fiscal expansion, to do it at the right time, and to do it in a coordinated way.

Mandatory arbitration would be a major, massive change in American labor law, giving bureaucrats power to determine wages, fringe benefits, and working conditions.

To put it in geographical terms, Barack Obama wants to move the United States some considerable distance toward Europe.

The unions thought they had a long enough lever, but now it seems they might not move the world after all.

Barack Obama's foreign policy is beginning to take shape, and it is something like a continuation of Bush policies.

Barack Obama has been encountering roadblocks on the audacious path toward a European-style welfare state.