Putin is a cagy politician, and surely he has learned the lessons of the fallen Arab Spring dictators. Widespread violent repression leads to alienation and de-legitimization. Ignoring the opposition allows it to grow and reach critical mass.

It’s hard to deny that the Earth is going haywire in a big way. This year has been by far the most expensive with respect to natural disaster damage in history.

The Greeks brought democracy into this world, and it looks like they can help to take it out, too.

Abolish tuition as we know it in favor of a garnishment of future wages

Pizza baron Herman Cain has somehow wedged his way into the top tier of the Republican primary field in the ...

al-Awlaki’s danger came from his ability to bridge the gap between radical Islam and Western culture.

All other benefits of legal marriage can be preserved by making civil unions, the secular half-measure currently offered to gays in lieu of full marriage, the norm.

President Faust, it’s time to sign the Amethyst Initiative.

Et tu, Hasty Pudding Theatricals? By naming Jay Leno as 2010 Man of the Year, the organization unnecessarily insulted alumnus ...

Some zealotry and fervor does a political system good.