Modern Chinese history is revealed in two recent publications that introduce the Hoover Institution and Fudan University Modern Research Series: Leadership and Archival Documents....

Israeli troops and tanks have invaded Gaza, the coastal strip of land south of their country, inhabited almost entirely by Muslim Arabs who speak the same colloquial Arabic as the Egyptian residents of the Sinai...

Happy New Year to you and to our readers. 2009 is shaping up to be an important year for American education...

As Barack Obama heads toward the Oval Office, demand is collapsing across most of the economy, and the job market is following...

The Washington Post reports: The government's billion-dollar program to help people prepare for the transition to digital television has run out of money, potentially leaving millions of viewers without coupons to buy converter boxes they need to keep their analog TV sets working after the switch...

Meg Whitman, the former chief executive of EBay Inc., has resigned from the board of directors of the online auction company and two other corporations, fueling speculation that she is preparing for a 2010 run for California governor...

The economic downturn has brought even the most arrogant CEOs to their knees, and it has created a potentially valuable teaching moment for those would-be masters of the universe...

If the government cuts rates or just gives rebates but at the same time increases the size of government, taxes are not lower...

Among the different policy prescriptions economists are batting about at the American Economic Association in San Francisco, one that’s been causing a buzz is cutting states’ sales taxes...