Thomas Sowell argues that, despite the attention they receive in the press, the “top one percent” of income earners are not a privileged class but rather a constantly churning group...
As the Democratic Party's nominee for president in 1968, Hubert Humphrey ran when an unpopular U.S. president was in his last months in office, an unpopular war was being fought overseas and a turbulent debate was underway over America's role in the world...
In his second inaugural address, on January 20, 2005, President George W. Bush used the word “freedom” 25 times, “liberty” 12 times, and “democracy” or “democratic” three times...
The world’s richest countries, which have contributed by far the most to the climatic changes linked to global warming, are already spending billions of dollars to limit their own risks from its worst consequences...
A Wall Street Journal editorial on November 26, 2007, complained of China’s refusal to allow the USS Kitty Hawk and its carrier battle group to dock in Hong Kong on Thanksgiving day...
The Bush administration hasn’t done well by its oft-cited aim of promoting democracy and freedom around the world, but the goal is still both desirable and achievable, says Francis Fukuyama, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, in an essay he co-wrote in Washington Quarterly, a policy journal...
Daniel Botkin, ecologist and author, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how we think about our role as humans in the natural world, the dynamic nature of environmental reality and the implications for how we react to global warming...
A new era in U.S.-India cooperation was unveiled at the White House in July 2005 when President George W. Bush told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that he would work to achieve full civil nuclear energy cooperation and trade with India, despite over a quarter century of disagreements between the two countries over nuclear issues...
