You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.

Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.

She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.

As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.

Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act.

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.

There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline.