Back in the late 1960s and early '70s there was talk to the effect that welfare, health care, old-age security and similar government-administered benefits are among our basic rights...
Anti-immigration conservatives are subjecting U.S. Sens. Jon Kyl and John McCain to blistering attacks over their pivotal role in the comprehensive immigration bill currently on life support in Congress...
Ward Connerly, who has successfully led the campaigns in California (Proposition 209), Washington state and in Michigan to ban race and gender from consideration in public hiring, contracting and school admissions, is thinking about launching similar ballot initiatives in nine other states...
Joseph Farah, founder of World Net Daily and one of the pioneers of the Internet wrote an important article on June 15, 2007, "Why Ron Paul Is Disqualified..."
He's played the head of the CIA, an admiral, the White House chief of staff and millions know him as gruff District Attorney Arthur Branch on "Law and Order..."
his month’s two marquee prospects for the Republican presidential nomination, Rudy Giuliani and Fred D. Thompson, have wandered into the political sinkhole of the Iraq War...
LAT columnist Niall Ferguson argues that last week's events evaporated any "lingering hopes of a two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians," and argues that the next Middle Eastern peace plan will have to include Israel, Hamastan, Fatahland and Hezbollahstan...
Economists have been emphasizing in recent years that that while cognitive abilities of individuals certainly raise their education and earnings, many non-cognitive skills are often more significant...
The flattened borders of the 21st century have made networking faster, global trade freer and competition more rigorous -- meaning the premium we place on educating future generations is higher than ever before...
Not since the 19th century has a U.S. president kept a diary through his entire White House tenure, and this volume tells us more about Ronald Reagan than many of his biographies...
The war in Iraq may be foremost in voters’ minds right now, but when it comes time to vote for president late next year, pocketbook issues such as taxes, jobs and health care will be what makes the final difference, top advisers to the leading contenders said Friday...
Tyler, writing in the New York Times, finds a silver lining in America's mediocre education system and makes some interesting observations about teenagers and entrepreneurship...
In an opinion piece in the New York Sun this week, Diane Ravitch charges that people too frequently blame teachers but neglect to consider the role of popular culture and a lack of student drive as culprits in American students' failure to compete globally...
Monday's EconTalk podcast will be with David Weinberger who has many interesting things to say about the way we use the web to organize information, based on his book, Everything is Miscellaneous...
