Who appointed over 40 ambassadors on the sole basis of campaign contributions, or has as many lobbyists in government as did any President in memory? . . .

Like Bryan, I received the same request from the same friend: what question(s) would I want to put on a survey of economists. . . .

This is the second installment of a Monday series excerpting the chapter on political implications from Thomas Sowell's latest book, "The Housing Boom and Bust." . . .

So when someone says the TARP was central to preventing disaster, don’t disagree. . . .

Economic historian Niall Ferguson is calling for the death of a monster he helped create. . . .

Paul Rahe defends his position that President Obama’s health-care proposals “presuppose the administrative state’s assuming a power over our lives that is nothing less than tyrannical.” . . .

For years, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri criticized Iran’s supreme leader and argued that the country was not the Islamic democracy it claimed to be, but his words seemed to fall on deaf ears. . . .

In Iran, the 1979 Islamic Revolution, though it brought to power a fundamentalist regime, also spawned new art from dissidents and from those inspired by the revolutionary cause. . . .

In a dramatic about-face for a movement that a generation ago embraced a Cold War nuclear shield against the Soviets, evangelical Christians now are spreading the gospel of nuclear disarmament. . . .