Both parties should have the good sense to demand less waste, more efficiency, and new technology.

Presented as a profound new insight, the latest explanation for the lackluster recovery is a sorry example of sloppy thinking and stale excuses.

Yes, we need to make affordable health insurance available. But to do so we need to scrap the “cover everything” mentality.

The debate that erupted in the 1930s still presents us with the same fundamental choice: greater liberty, or greater government power?

A surprising experiment suggests students might benefit from bigger classes—but only if they have good teachers.

An elegant technique developed by Hoover fellow CAROLINE M. HOXBY helps isolated, high-achieving kids get into colleges—good colleges.

China’s rise need not entail America’s fall. How “declinism” distracts us from contemplating a much more complicated future.

If China wants an example of progress, it need only look across the Taiwan Strait.

For proof that Israel is more than willing to deal in good faith with the Palestinians, just look at the political freedoms Israeli Arabs enjoy.

There is fresh fighting in Anbar, a province once pacified by U.S. troops. In Iraq, Al-Qaeda is far from spent.

California’s recovery, like Jerry Brown’s high-speed railroad, remains in the realm of wishful thinking.

David Mamet is one of this generation’s most acclaimed playwrights—and, as of an intellectual conversion just a few years ago, also one of its freshest political thinkers.

Why is Marxism still fashionable in some quarters? Because although the free market’s hard edges are easy to see, its benefits are more subtle.

A century before there was the drone, there was the zeppelin. As a weapon of terror, the airship had no equal at the start of the First World War.