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President Obama will speak Tuesday, as world leaders assemble at the United Nations in New York for “Climate Summit 2014,” “to galvanize and catalyze climate action.” Environmentalists have taken note, organizing “the largest climate march in history,” to pressure governments to regulate “a world safe from the ravages of climate …

Editor’s note: The following op-ed originally appeared in Commentary magazine. Just when pundits were starting to agree that the odds are tipping in favor of the Republicans winning control of the Senate this November, reports of inquiries about potential misconduct by Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu may make the embattled Red …

There’s an old saying in Washington, that the most damaging scandals are marked by a “drip, drip, drip” of new information, with new revelations emerging week by week until the scandal finally reaches a critical mass. But with the last two weeks of IRS revelations, culminating in this week’s news …

The Obama administration wants to be clear: they’re very, very angry over the dysfunctional state of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), where reports of falsified wait lists and delayed care at VA medical centers are growing into a national scandal for the executive branch. Specifically, administration officials say …

In 2013, CEOs of S&P 500 companies earned, on average, 204 times the salary of rank-and-file employees. Some stockholders are upset. Should they be? The need for high executive salaries and generous incentives continues to be debated. By and large, economists conclude from their studies that high remuneration for top …

American athletes just finished competing in Sochi with top athletes from around the world. As U.S. competitors give their very best, our nation rallied behind them. What if we could drive the same effort and ambition towards our competitiveness in education? We have a long way to go — and …

In the aftermath of an IRS targeting scandal that may have influenced the 2012 election, in the midst of criminal and congressional investigations, while civil litigation is pending in federal court, before a single deposition is taken and while the IRS clings to tens of thousands of documents, the president …

BELFAST, Northern Ireland – While the Obama administration offers life support to its Affordable Care Act, in the UK a growing number of people are asking whether it’s time to pull the plug on the National Health Service (NHS), which is in critical condition. For many years the UK media …

President Obama relentlessly argues the unemployed lack work through no fault of their own, and Republican reluctance to reinstate long-term jobless benefits is both heartless and harmful to the economy. Those assertions contradict the facts and sound economics. Last July, North Carolina cut maximum unemployment benefits from 73 weeks to …

U.S. regulators are finally implementing the Volcker Rule, and it may prove the hidden jewel in the Dodd-Frank financial reforms. The rule limits bank purchases of stocks, bonds, currency, commodities, and derivatives—contracts that bet on movements in the prices of assets—with their own money, which also put their federally insured …