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Similar countries, two European destinies.

Powerful government unions drive up spending. But so do legislators who would lose their outlandish retirement perks if serious reform passed.

Economist Robert Higgs on the mistaken Keynesian focus on 'aggregate,' economy-wide measurements.

This may sound odd coming from a Reagan speechwriter, but for 25 years I have wondered: Did that Berlin address really matter?

The strongest defense of capitalism, argue two new books on the subject, is that it works. James Grant reviews.

Two new novels—Claire McMillan's "Gilded Age" and Francesca Segal's "The Innocents"—attempt an updating of Edith Wharton; Mark Haddon's "The Red House" follows a family's rancorous weeklong vacation in the British countryside. Sam Sacks reviews.

What is the Obama Doctrine? David E. Sanger's "Confront and Conceal" and Daniel Klaidman's "Kill or Capture" offer in-depth analyses of President Obama's national security decisions.

Chicago Tribune | Chicago cab driver faces up to 90 months for providing a few hundred dollars to a Kashmiri nationalist group connected to al-Qaeda.

The former Newsweek correspondent on books by Americans who reported from Germany in the 1930s on the Nazis' growing menace.

Patrick Henningsen | Latest massacre in Hama has been jumped on by Washington and the UN, despite lack of real evidence that Assad was involved.

Infowars.com | Lord Monckton provides Infowars exclusively with an in-depth research document he plans to forward to his fellow hereditary peers concerning Obama's forged birth certificate.

A.M. Freyed | There’s plenty of oil, and even the global elites can’t hide it anymore.

RT | leaked document reveals that a European-based lobby group has asked the United Nations to tax American websites.

EFF.org | "Obama Administration wants Congress to extend the broader surveillance powers passed by Congress in 2008."

CNN | "There is evidence that suspects sold newborns to childless couples, authorities say."

FOX News | Massive sting relieves world of 190 alleged child predators, mostly from US, but some from Spain, Philippines, Argentina, and UK.

Paul Joseph Watson | Majority accuse Kentucky Senator of selling out to Republican establishment.

Village Voice | The public is being "held hostage by the museum's irresponsibility unaccountability, and uncontrolled spending."

Ethan A. Huff | TV's celebrity doctor exposed as being nothing more than a sales agent for Big Pharma's harmful vaccines.

Bloomberg Businessweek | "The amount of radioactive water that sprayed through the pinhole-sized leak was 'relatively small...'"