Two years after its passage, President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act remains a hot-button issue. Does the law's requirement that every American obtain health insurance violate the constitution?

One of the few issues on which opinion has moved left over the last few years is same-sex marriage. Why? One reason is probably that as people learn that friends and relatives are gay, they become more sympathetic to gay rights. But increasing support for same-sex marriage causes problems for politicians.

The Occupiers are right about American incomes: They've definitely grown more unequal. But this fact presents three inconvenient truths for the Occupy Wall Street movement.

There are two views about the contemporary American family, one held by the public and the other by policy elites. In his presidential campaign, Bill Clinton appeared to endorse the public’s view. It remains to be seen which view President Clinton will support.

The public’s view is this: the family is the place...

Polls today show that after a decade of an exhausting war on terrorism, Americans' appreciation for men and women in uniform is strong and deep.

As recently as half a century ago, Americans across all classes showed only minor differences on the Founding virtues. When Americans resisted the idea of being thought part of an upper class or lower class, they were responding to a reality: there really was such a thing as a civic culture that embraced all of them. Today, that is no longer true.

"The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick and Will (Eventually) Feel Better" by Tyler Cowen is an e-book which brings new insight into how our current economy has been shaped.

Pensions and scholarships send a message that marriage and child-rearing are honorable life choices. This is the opposite of what Canadian and other societies now teach their children.