As the bitter dispute in Wisconsin between Governor Scott Walker and Democratic legislators illustrates, state budget constraints have put public-sector unions on the defensive over collective-bargaining rules.
Still, public-sector unions are in a
Among the multitude of amazing reports about the situation in Libya is what is said to be the complete absence of institutions of “civil society.”
Not irrationally, Muammar el-Qaddafi apparently viewed any potential equivalents of Rotary
Does it really matter how many ribs Michelle Obama ate on her vacation? For too many conservatives, the answer seems to be yes, with pundits poking fun at the anti-obesity guru's dinner choice. But conservatives need to give it a
States and municipalities around the country are struggling to tighten their fiscal belts, but few cities face as stark a choice as the hard-luck southern New Jersey city of Camden. One of America's most dangerous cities, Camden
Next week President Obama will deliver the annual State of the Union address, which outlines his legislative agenda for the year, to a new Congress with one house controlled by Republicans. Still, the president remains in command of
In 2005, the National Endowment for the Arts, together with the Poetry Foundation, established Poetry Out Loud, a program intended to encourage "the nation's youth to learn about great poetry through memorization and recitation." In
Early next year, the Ensco 8503, a massive new drilling rig designed to work in water depths of up to 10,000 feet, will be towed out of the Gulf of Mexico to a drilling site off the coast of French Guinea. That departure will provide yet more evidence of
