Editorials

Ever since Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba in 1959, the U.S. has sought to undermine his rule. It hasn’t worked.... READ MORE

We’ll find out soon enough what the markets will make of the decision by Standard & Poor’s to downgrade its rating of... READ MORE

The Pentagon says it can handle the $325 billion in cuts that will be required during the next decade as part of the... READ MORE

Global markets have issued a vote of no confidence in the management of the world’s two largest economies, the U.S. and... READ MORE

Across the Arab world, centuries of authoritarian traditions are crumbling. Unfortunately, the bitter truth is that the... READ MORE

With a drawdown of 33,000 U.S. surge troops now under way, and plans for all U.S. and NATO combat forces to exit... READ MORE

The U.S. Congress may have narrowly avoided a government-debt disaster, but financial troubles are resurging across the... READ MORE

Here are three remarkable facts about the United States Postal Service: Its union workers have no- layoff contracts; no... READ MORE

In 2009, Congress extended jobless benefits to 99 weeks, the longest period in U.S. history. Those payments were meant... READ MORE

The deal reached by the U.S. Congress to raise the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling has spared the nation an immediate... READ MORE

Should health insurance companies be required to cover the entire range of birth-control services, and do so in full --... READ MORE

With this summer’s debt-ceiling fiasco, it is clearer than ever that Washington’s leadership is not what it used to be.... READ MORE