Politics

Former Mass. Gov. Romney takes in Celtics game

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-05 14:28
BOSTON (AP) -- Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, spent Sunday night at Boston's TD Garden watching the NBA playoff game between the Celtics and the Atlanta Hawks....

Former Mass. Gov. Romney takes in Celtics game

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-05 14:28
BOSTON (AP) -- Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, spent Sunday night at Boston's TD Garden watching the NBA playoff game between the Celtics and the Atlanta Hawks....

Socialist France

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-05-05 14:28
Hollande's center-left model should be Gerhard Schröder.


The New Greek Extremism

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-05-05 14:28
Voters are giving up on the political mainstream in Athens.


James Bovard: Don't Worry (About GDP), Be Happy

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-05-05 14:28
With the economy slow and joblessness high, the feds want a new way to measure well-being.


Carrie Lukas: 'Paycheck Fairness' Will Mean a Pay Cut for Men

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-05-05 14:28
Wage discrimination is already illegal. So what? Get ready for another phony debate.


Jon Huntsman: How to Manage the China Relationship

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-05-05 14:28
Despite economic success and growing regional influence, Chinese leaders are profoundly insecure.


Biden OK with equal rights for married gay couples

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-05 14:28
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden says he's "absolutely comfortable" with gay couples who marry getting the same civil rights and liberties as heterosexual couples, a stand that gay rights advocates interpreted as an endorsement of same-sex marriage....

O'Grady: Evo Morales's Victims Push Back

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-05-05 14:28
As protests against him rise and his popularity falls, the Bolivian president nationalizes another big company.


Who's who? Obama, Romney projecting mirror image

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-05 14:28
WASHINGTON (AP) -- He's a smug, Harvard-trained elitist who doesn't get how regular Americans are struggling these days. More extreme than he lets on, he's keeping his true agenda hidden until after Election Day. He's clueless about fixing the economy, over his head on foreign policy. Who is he?...

Peter Berkowitz: Why Colleges Don't Teach the Federalist Papers

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-05-05 14:28
At America's top schools, graduates leave without reading our most basic writings on the purpose of constitutional self-government.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-05-05 14:28
James Grant on the Federal Reserve's misguided fear of deflation.


Windy Republicans

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-05-05 14:28
GOP Congressmen sign up for energy crony capitalism.


American Scene: Man's death at Derby track called a homicide

LOUISVILLE — The discovery of a man's body Sunday in the stable area of Churchill Downs was being investigated as a homicide, but there appears to be no connection to the race track or the Kentucky Derby, police said.

"At this point we don't have anything pointing to the fact ...

What killed Lenin? Poison called possibility

BALTIMORE — Stress, family medical history or possibly even poison led to the death of Vladimir Lenin, contradicting a popular theory that a sexually transmitted disease debilitated the Soviet Union's founder, a UCLA neurologist said.

Dr. Harry Vinters and Russian historian Lev Lurie reviewed Lenin's records Friday for an annual ...

North Carolina voting on gay marriage

Opponents of North Carolina's marriage amendment are aiming to pull out a surprise victory Tuesday, while supporters are fighting to ensure that their state joins the rest of the South in saying that only marriages between one man and one woman are legally valid.

Recent polls indicate that the constitutional ...

Logging opponents chop down trees to battle beetles

SPEARFISH CANYON, S.D. | Joe Shark's American Indian heritage taught him to be leery of the timber industry on the South Dakota reservation where he grows apples and gooseberries, but a threat from an enemy no larger than a fingernail impelled him to grab a saw and join the loggers.

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WILLIAMS: Mr. Hope and Change

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Thales of Miletus, considered one of the first philosophers in history, said, perhaps jokingly, that hope is the most abundant thing in the world, because even when you have absolutely nothing, hey, at least you still have hope.

We're not seeing a whole lot of hope coming out of ...

Taking Ideas on a Test Drive

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-05-05 14:28
In "Uncontrolled," Jim Manzi asks whether the principles and methods used in scientific experiments be applied to business and social policy. Trevor Butterworth reviews.


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