The U.S. government "needs" so much money that it has to steal from the entire world to get it.

How our financial system got into such a mess, the lessons we should learn, and what we can do about it.

Modern thugs have no respect for hospitals or churches; they'll happily carry on their combat, violence, and theft even in "sanctuaries" of healing, which even criminals of past generations would not do.

Self-organizing systems don't need managers.

Bureaucracy jams up big business just as much as big government.

The Chinese are gathering resources we won't allow ourselves to.

An authoritarian rich country augurs a better future than a poor democratic one.

The saga of Shirley Sherrod's "racism" has shaken American politics to its core.

Can Mexico get its act together?

Our anti-God Ivy League universities leave our elites utterly unprepared for the real world.