Politics

Fit and Unfit to Publish

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-05-06 06:45
The trouble with MPs who want to dictate media ownership.


Muslim, Mormon growth spurts found

Mormonism and Islam are among the fastest growing religions in America, while just over half of all Americans are unaffiliated with any denomination, according to a major census of the country's religious congregations published Wednesday.

The decennial census, released by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies in Chicago, ...

Medical professionals charged with fraud involving Medicare

A strike force of federal, state and local agents and investigators, led by the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services, has charged 107 persons in seven cities with Medicare fraud involving more than $452 million in false billings, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Wednesday.

Mr. Holder, ...

Harvard-MIT partnership to offer free online courses on global scale

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have joined forces to offer free online courses in a project aimed at attracting millions of online learners around the world, the universities announced Wednesday.

Beginning this fall, a variety of courses developed by faculty at both institutions will be ...

Colleges pledge to squelch dangerous rites of hazing

Universities are no longer turning a blind eye to what happens inside the fraternity house.

After horrific, firsthand accounts from students and multiple recent deaths, the long-accepted practice of hazing — both in Greek organizations and other university clubs — has been thrust into the spotlight, and a fierce, unprecedented ...

Henninger: Memo to the Youth Vote

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-05-06 06:45
Unless they plan to be union lifers, what's in an Obama vote for young Americans?


Minxin Pei: Communist China's Perilous Phase

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-05-06 06:45
Disunity among the ruling elites and the rising defiance of dissidents signal that one-party rule could be nearing its end.


Gunzinger and Krepinevich: The Laser Future of U.S. Missile Defense

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-05-06 06:45
Russia and China recognize the low-cost efficiency of lasers. Does the Pentagon?


Activists near vote on modified food labeling

California could become the first state in the nation to require food producers to label all genetically modified products after activists this week capped a successful petition drive to get the measure on the state's November ballot.

More than 971,000 signatures from 58 counties - almost twice the legal requirement ...

Investigation: Prostitutes not stealing U.S. secrets

CNN - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 06:45
Investigators have discovered, so far, that the prostitutes in the Secret Service scandal did not steal U.S. secrets.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Gingrich ends campaign, urges party to back Romney

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 06:45
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) -- Newt Gingrich, the colorful former House speaker and fiery partisan, formally exited the Republican presidential contest Wednesday and vowed to help Mitt Romney's bid to defeat President Barack Obama....

Gingrich ends campaign, urges party to back Romney

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 06:45
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) -- Newt Gingrich, the colorful former House speaker and fiery partisan, formally exited the Republican presidential contest Wednesday and vowed to help Mitt Romney's bid to defeat President Barack Obama....

Gingrich ends campaign, urges party to back Romney

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 06:45
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) -- Newt Gingrich, the colorful former House speaker and fiery partisan, formally exited the Republican presidential contest Wednesday and vowed to help Mitt Romney's bid to defeat President Barack Obama....

Gingrich ends campaign, urges party to back Romney

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 06:45
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) -- Newt Gingrich, the colorful former House speaker and fiery partisan, formally exited the Republican presidential contest Wednesday and vowed to help Mitt Romney's bid to defeat President Barack Obama....

Gingrich ends campaign, urges party to back Romney

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 06:45
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) -- Newt Gingrich, the colorful former House speaker and fiery partisan, formally exited the Republican presidential contest Wednesday and vowed to help Mitt Romney's bid to defeat President Barack Obama....

Gingrich ends campaign, urges party to back Romney

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 06:45
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) -- Newt Gingrich, the colorful former House speaker and fiery partisan, formally exited the Republican presidential contest Wednesday and vowed to help Mitt Romney's bid to defeat President Barack Obama....

John Yoo's Vindication

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-05-06 06:45
Even the Ninth Circuit can't abide a frivolous anti-antiterror case.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-05-06 06:45
Ian Bremmer on the consequences of a world without superpowers.


Bradley Smith: Welcome to Boycott Nation

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-05-06 06:45
The left and right are resorting to a new tactic that harms civil society.


GOP's 'faux anger' is all the rage

CNN - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 06:45
Maria Cardona says GOP criticism of both Obama's Afghanistan trip and an Obama ad that mentions bin Laden raid is pure politics.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics
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