On the day last week when President Obama was hosting his health-care summit -- and struggling to make a fractured political system work -- a quiet event was taking place on Capitol Hill that celebrated a moment when political will and idealism fused to produce the liberation of millions of people. . . .

What exactly are we doing with all the borrowing at home and the fighting abroad? . . .

The Japanese press reported yesterday that the United States will retire its nuclear-armed Tomahawk cruise missiles, signifying the end of an ongoing debate within the Obama administration over the future of these weapons. . . .

As Paul Johnson succinctly put it, intellectuals are more interested in ideas than in people. . . .