Last week, the world watched in stunned silence as rioters burned and pillaged dozens of neighborhoods in nine major British cities, with the lion's share of the chaos occurring in and around London.
Last month, the Supreme Court struck down a never-enacted California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors.
Last Sunday, Gov. Mitch Daniels, R-Ind., joined Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Gov.
In the weeks since Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and his Republican allies passed a controversial "budget repair bill" that eliminated the rights of public sector workers to collectively bargain, activists on both sides of the aisle have been feverishly trying to collect enough signatures to trigger recall elections against the officials involved.
Years of cutting taxes, expanding benefits and rising health care costs with some unfortunate demographic trends sprinkled in for good measure have finally created a long-term fiscal outlook so daunting that not even our elected representatives can ignore it.
It's a difficult time to be a sports fan. The owners of the National Football League are currently locking out their players in an effort to secure a greater share of future league revenues.
The ongoing battle to reduce the United States' enormous federal budget deficit (roughly $1.3 trillion in this fiscal year alone) represents a shameful public policy failure and illuminates the depressing inability of policymakers Republicans and Democrats alike to honestly address the significant challenges facing our nation.
Following their impressive gains in last November's midterm elections, Republicans nationwide have been drafting legislation to make it as difficult as possible for women to attain legal abortions.
Since the beginning of the recent popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, debate has raged over the role that the United States should play in shaping these movements and the power transitions that they now seem likely to provoke.
This past weekend, the National Football League's two top-seeded teams, the New England Patriots (14-2) and the Atlanta Falcons (13-3), were each stunned at home in their playoff openers by white hot bottom-seeded teams.