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

Bureaucrats can never be as competent as the people they're trying to regulate, because they have no incentive to be.

Why scream about Wal-Mart's RFID tags when the government does much worse?

The French boldly ban the burkha. Good for them!

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.

Unions hate the cheap Chinese goods American consumers love.

Public-sector union leeches are dangerously close to killing their host.

Federal regulation and oversight has made the Gulf oil spill far worse.