Politics

Natural gas industry high on future, despite current low prices

PITTSBURGH — Despite looming federal regulations and rock-bottom market prices, leaders in the natural gas business are confident the shale boom that's helped revitalize economies from Pennsylvania to Wyoming is only just getting started.

Companies from across the sector, from multibillion-dollar outfits such as Chesapeake Energy to small-town hardware stores, ...

Dire finances leave Detroit stalled

Despite assurances from Clint Eastwood and Eminem, Detroit's rebirth may be on hold, as the city is on a Greece-like track to run out of money before summer, and things are getting increasingly testy between the state's Republican governor and the city's Democratic mayor.

Although the automotive sector and some ...

Holtz-Eakin and Smith: ObamaCare's Flawed Economic Foundations

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:19
The insurance mandate has almost nothing to do with remedying costs imposed on the system by those without coverage.


McGurn: The Improbable Mr. Santorum

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:19
Outgunned in staff and money, disdained by the media, he refuses to be silenced and remains Romney's only real rival.


In the Watery Part of the World

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:19
Before he wrote "On the Road," Jack Kerouac attempted a Melvillean adventure story full of brotherly seamen and philosophizing about freedom. Sam Sacks reviews.


Santorum courts conservative Christians

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:19
CENTRAL, La. (AP) -- When a nationally influential evangelical leader gathered dozens of pastors at his home church to hear from a presidential candidate, he had a simple message: Rick Santorum is one of us, and your parishioners should vote for him....

Santorum courts conservative Christians

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:19
CENTRAL, La. (AP) -- When a nationally influential evangelical leader gathered dozens of pastors at his home church to hear from a presidential candidate, he had a simple message: Rick Santorum is one of us, and your parishioners should vote for him....

The Anti-Jobs Lobby

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:19
All of a sudden, bipartisanship is a bad idea.


School Reform's Establishment Turn

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:19
The Council on Foreign Relations endorses choice and competition.


Romney faces tough questions on women's issues

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:19
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) -- Mitt Romney wanted to talk about the economy, but Bradley University had other ideas....

Romney faces tough questions on women's issues

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:19
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) -- Mitt Romney wanted to talk about the economy, but Bradley University had other ideas....

Romney faces tough questions on women's issues

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:19
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) -- Mitt Romney wanted to talk about the economy, but Bradley University had other ideas....

Romney faces tough questions on women's issues

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:19
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) -- Mitt Romney wanted to talk about the economy, but Bradley University had other ideas....

Romney faces tough questions on women's issues

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:19
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) -- Mitt Romney wanted to talk about the economy, but Bradley University had other ideas....

Romney faces tough questions on women's issues

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:19
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) -- Mitt Romney wanted to talk about the economy, but Bradley University had other ideas....

Romney faces tough questions on women's issues

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:19
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) -- Mitt Romney wanted to talk about the economy, but Bradley University had other ideas....

Food for Missile Program

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:19
So much for buying good Korean behavior.


American Scene: Missouri woman killed daughters, self

BALLWIN, Mo. — The fatal shooting of a woman and her three young daughters at a Missouri resort has been ruled a murder-suicide.

Christine Adewunmi, 37, and her daughters Lauren, 8, Samantha, 6, and Kate, 3, were discovered Saturday afternoon on a gravel road at the Blue Springs Ranch & ...

Paul Ryan: The GOP Budget and America's Future

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:19
The president's budget gives more power to bureaucrats, takes more from taxpayers to fuel the expansion of government, and commits our nation to a future of debt and decline.


1940 census to provide a Depression snapshot

NEW YORK — It was a decade when tens of millions of people in the U.S. experienced mass unemployment and social upheaval as the nation clawed its way out of the Great Depression and rumblings of global war were heard from abroad.

Now, intimate details of 132 million people who ...

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