United States
A Buyer's Guide to The Bushmaster Company
Don't Let Chuck Hagel's Hardline Israel Critics Sink His Nomination
What Will Secretary of State John Kerry's Foreign Policy Look Like?
The Second Most Powerful Gun Lobby Is in Newtown, Connecticut
The Fiscal Cliff Coloring Book: Fun for Grownups Too!
Recognizing Disaster: Please, Mr. President, Don’t Intervene in Syria
When it comes to the grueling civil war in Syria, it's been a while since the relevant question was whether the regime of Bashar Assad would fall. It's only a matter of time until it does. The more pressing policy choice has been whether the United States would actively hasten its demise.
Too Big to Jail: Our Banking System's Latest Disgrace
Why the Justice Department let HSBC get away with criminal conduct.
Rein in the Rich: How Higher Taxes Could Lift the Economy
As the negotiations over the fiscal cliff continue, President Barack Obama has insisted on retaining the Bush tax cuts for the middle class, while letting the cuts for the wealthy lapse. Republicans have insisted that raising taxes on the rich would cost jobs – as many as 700,000, according to House Speaker John Boehner. Obama, for his part, says that a tax increase would not cost jobs; that it would help the economy by reducing the deficit; and that it would be fairer than imposing new taxes on the middle class.
The Birth of American Finance
How Alexander Hamilton and a Swiss anti-Federalist created our country's capitalist system.
