SymphonyIRI reports that “57 percent of consumers are feeling increased financial strain when gas prices increase, and more than four in ten say high gas prices make it difficult to meet monthly expenses,” based on polls conducted in the second quarter of 2011. Furthermore, 49 percent of consumers plan to reduce grocery spending if gas prices climb another 50 cents. What can be done?

Since when do elected officials get to decide that they are “done compromising,” as the president’s chief of staff asserted?

Almost everything you hear at graduations - and read on the internet, and watch on television - focuses on the idea of work, especially entrepreneurship, as a means of self-expression and (to use the term from David Brooks) self-actualization.

Defending Defense has issued a primer on China's military build-up and its implications for American defense spending.

It is likely that we change in April from confrontation over $2 billion or $4 billion to confrontation over raising the debt limit, a much more deadly risk to the American and global economy.