Books are good gifts to receive and even better gifts to give because you can get books without half the hassles involved in buying many other kinds of gifts...
People for whom indignation is a way of life -- and there seem to be an increasing number of such people -- repeatedly have outbursts of outrage whenever the police fire a lot of shots at some criminal...
Richard Rhodes has written an altogether fitting sequel to his two exceptional books on the early history of the nuclear age, books that occupy a niche of their own in the literature...
KnowledgeAdvisors announced today that Gary S. Becker, Ph.D. will make a rare public address on March 6, 2008 at the KnowledgeAdvisors Analytics Symposium in San Diego, CA...
At an annual United Nations meeting, a nonbinding resolution calling on nuclear-armed states to lessen the alert level of those weapons recently won the support of 124 countries despite British, French, and U.S. opposition...
For more than a year, the 2008 presidential candidates have been traveling the country, giving speeches, writing articles, participating in debates, and shaking hands in anticipation of primaries and caucuses that are set to begin in January...
Military historian Victor Davis Hanson discusses the current war against radical Islam, calling it a true world war and comparing it to the epic global struggles of the 20th century...
In a tribute to the roughly 100 million people believed to have died under closed communist regimes, a U.S. foundation is building a “virtual museum” of their suffering on the World Wide Web—a monument in itself to openness and transparency...
The recently retired commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East questioned on Monday whether Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki can take the steps necessary to bring national unity to the country, and said the United States must "demand" that Maliki do so...
Among the candidates for comprehensive reform of federal taxation is the Fair Tax, a proposal to replace the income tax with a national retail sales tax...
