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Doubling down on thuggishness with help from U.S. money.

You can't make a baby by hugging a tree.

A bipartisan challenge to Obama's blind spot on rights in Russia.

Unions and liberal activists are using proxy rules to attack business political speech.

Peter Ferrara on the country's long-term economic growth prospects.

If Tehran returns to a pro-Western orientation, Moscow's stranglehold on the central Asian republics will be over.

As tax cuts expire and spending falls, the economy will be hit with a 3.5% decline in gross domestic demand.

The president's achievements may be overshadowed by high gas prices.

Despite Wikipedia, more people pay to access the encyclopedia website annually than paid for the print edition in any year.

Ignoring those who have suffered for their faith may win some favor for the Church, but risks alienating the island's faithful.

We possess a dual nature that includes selfish striving and a nobler "groupishness": 90% chimp and 10% bee. Gary Rosen reviews "The Righteous Mind."

Forty years after the Munich Olympics, star player Tom McMillen recalls his stolen gold medal and the murder of innocents.

Prosecutors in the Stevens case deserve severe sanctions.

A calorie-free denunciation of Goldman to confirm the media's trite conceptions.

Indiana insurgents play Mickey-Mouse politics against Dick Lugar.

Neither Karzai nor the Taliban seem to believe President Obama.

Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer on the medical profession's move from the Hippocratic oath toward the "veterinary ethic."

New Orleans has been reborn as a tech town. Really.

Doctors may no longer diagnose hysteria, but it has a long history, as writer Asti Hustvedt shows with a selection of her favorite books on the subject, including Freud's classic study and Georges Didi-Huberman's analysis of a hysteria craze in Paris in the late 19th century.

Bell Laboratories invented the transistor, the solar cell and many other wonders of the modern world. Did the big corporations of the past innovate better than today's start-ups? Bob Metcalfe reviews Jon Gertner's "The Idea Factory."