A likely cheer went up in Kurdistan on July 22, 2010, when the World Court in the Hague ruled that Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence in 2008 was legal...
No great upheaval has taken place in the Egypt of Hosni Mubarak. But the country has stagnated, and some of its children have blamed the U.S. and embraced terror...
President Obama during this past week signed into law extending unemployment benefits to a maximum of 99 weeks, or almost two years, for persons who have been unemployed for over half a year and have exhausted their state benefits...
The WikiLeaks files make it plain: Islamabad is the Taliban’s faithful ally. Tunku Varadarajan argues it’s time for the U.S. to stop paying money to Pakistan so they can help our enemies kill us. Plus, the seven most shocking secrets from the WikiLeaks files...
If a local government in Pacific Grove or elsewhere got rid of [certain] laws, how many extra productive jobs would be created? How many people would hire workers to cut down trees, build extra rooms, etc...?
California's proposed new mathematics content standards would gut the state's successful program, which has put 60 percent of the state's children in Algebra I by eighth grade...
He's an embarrassment, and a hindrance to his party's 2010 fortunes. Tunku Varadarajan on why Rangel must resign—and why racism is no longer a viable defense against challenges to his conduct...
The war in Afghanistan is the revenge of the Iraq war. It was amid the great debate about Iraq that there was born the myth of Afghanistan as the good war of “necessity”—the September 11 war...
No soldier wants to be the last one to die in a war, goes the old saw. In Afghanistan, make that: No coalition member wants to be the last one to quit...
Harvard economist Robert J. Barro talked about about his theory that stimulus spending by the federal government decreases spending in the private sector. Following his remarks, he responded to audience members' questions...
