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.

The French boldly ban the burkha. Good for them!

Can Mexico get its act together?

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.

Mr. Obama, what are we doing in Afghanistan?

Elena Kagan rejects the very concept of the First Amendment and the idea of a Constitution at all.

Like Somalia, Detroit is supported by outside contributions, but the pirates spend their loot much more carefully.