Editorials

Nothing in the debate over health- care reform is more depressing than the verbal attacks each party lobs against the... READ MORE

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday accepted a United Nations-backed plan to end the bloodshed he is inflicting... READ MORE

Even by Europe’s standards, the people of Ireland have plenty to complain about. Their economy is in the grinder, and... READ MORE

It’s a tantalizing promise that one day “carbon capture” will remove greenhouse gases from the smoke made by coal-fired... READ MORE

As much as we’d like to see the U.S. Supreme Court allow the entire federal health-care law to stand, it’s perfectly... READ MORE

President Barack Obama got caught Monday talking with the microphone left on -- again. This time, he was telling... READ MORE

Once upon a time, the health-care debate was political. It was messy and mean and occasionally absurd, but it made... READ MORE

The hullabaloo over cutting public employee retirement benefits and collective bargaining rights has died down, but the... READ MORE

U.S. policy toward North Korea is crazy -- that is, if you believe the old chestnut that insanity means repeatedly doing... READ MORE

The Florida Legislature just spent a couple of weeks debating a reasonable question: Why should U.S. taxpayers pay for... READ MORE

The budget announced Wednesday by Britain’s Conservative government was less a change of economic direction than an... READ MORE

“Seek truth from facts,” goes an old Chinese saying favored by Deng Xiaoping. That injunction should also apply to the... READ MORE