Elizabeth Warren is again at the center of a political controversy. Despite her insistence that she is part Cherokee, based upon “family lore” and her observation that some in her family had “high cheekbones like all the Indians do,” she has failed to produce any concrete evidence to substantiate her claim.

Washington Post editorial writer and liberal blogger Jonathan Capehart is puzzled. Why does the "non-issue" of Harvard law professor and Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's Native American ancestry "require so much attention?" he asked last week.

When Warren was teaching at Pennsylvania, Texas and...

For several years now, President Obama and his allies in the environmental movement have promised to usher in a green economy that will create millions of new green jobs that “can’t be outsourced.”

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation should be commended for supporting HIV and malaria clinical research. However, it has avoided dirtying its hands by staying away from on-the ground interventions.

Vladimir Putin continues to make a fool of himself over the election in Ukraine, though he is beginning to be a dangerous fool. Perhaps because his own views on life, politics, and diplomacy were formed through the many years he worked in the KGB, the Russian President seems unable to grasp that meddling in Ukrainian politics, to press Russian interests over Ukrainian, is not in the Russian interest.

Allowing foreign buyers of goods produced by international cartels to pursue civil antitrust damages in U.S. courts would deter cartel formation and price-fixing.

As the Bush administration enters its second term, will the higher-education-policy issues that received the most attention in the first term remain front and center?