Ted Kennedy wasn't there to see it. Instead, it was Democrats' loss of his seat that sent the Senate's health care bill through the House of Representatives mostly unchanged yesterday, causing, among...
Americans constantly worry about public education. There is a mantra that we keep repeating: “Our Schools Are Failing!” But have our schools, in fact, failed? And if so, who or what is really to...
The recent death of Michael Foot, former leader of Britain's Labour Party, inflicted upon us, or the shrinking section of the public that still pays attention to news at least, a litany of glowing...
When most Americans think of terrorism, certain images come to mind: airplanes flying into the World Trade Center. Muslim men with long beards in Afghanistan. Dark-skinned people trying to set off...
“Nigeria is a child. Gifted, enormously talented, prodigiously endowed and incredibly wayward,” - these are the words of Chinua Achebe, in his newly published The Education of A...
I am deeply concerned for the future of American democracy. The Senate’s failure to function threatens the nation’s long democratic history. The government’s system of checks and balances...
One of the more hilarious editorials on this year's presidential election in Ukraine, came courtesy of Taras Kuzio, who, among his many achievements, formerly worked for NATO in Kyiv (always a sore...
I skipped the State of the Union. I've been fed up with Obama speeches for a bit—strange, considering he's the best political speaker of my lifetime, certainly. But I just couldn't take another...
Listening to President Obama’s State of the Union address and the ensuing response by Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, I was struck by the near absence of substantive policy differences. It seems...
On Christmas day, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly attempted to blow up a trans-Atlantic Northwest Airlines flight arriving from Amsterdam in Detroit. Though he is Nigerian, he has alleged...
