It turns out this Obama proposal will cost federal revenue.
The marriage tax and other obstacles to economic progress.
Josh Kraushaar on a survey showing independent voters more interested in economic growth than in 'fairness.'
A new history of the Spanish civil war pays special attention to the violence perpetrated by Francoists. Stanley G. Payne reviews "The Spanish Holocaust."
Philip Larkin's poems are a protest against the limits of time, says David Mason.
In "Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms," Richard Fortey presents his observations on a diverse collection of organisms, from bacteria to musk oxen, that share a conspicuous number of features with the earliest of their fossil ancestors. Jennie Erin...
Feminism's latest triumph: Boys are afraid of girls.
Author Richard Mason on books that memorably depict those who dare—in realms of love, power, society and elsewhere.
Each one of his rivals offers a clue to victory in November.
The GOP still practices primogeniture, but much else has changed in politics.
Restricting TV ads for food aimed at kids won't help cure the child obesity problem.
Before you can sue to protect your discovery, you should first have to make a product or partner with someone who does.
The disaster is often seen as a tale of hubris, social stratification and capitalist excess. The truth is considerably more sobering.
There were 467 new priestly ordinations in the U.S. last year, and Boston's seminary had to turn away applicants.
Obama gives Tehran reasons to doubt his seriousness.
Raising fees on worker visas only depresses job creation for all.
A new study suggests higher U.S. oncology spending is 'worth it.'
Everyone's talking nukes, but Iran is a world hub of jihadist terrorism, including al Qaeda.
A group of thinkers tried to explain Russia to a West that could understand it only in terms of "communism" or "freedom." Lesley Chamberlain reviews "Doubt, Atheism, and the Nineteenth-Century Russian Intelligentsia."
Hilary Rosen and the misogynistic foundation of contemporary feminism.