A tribute to an anti-mentor.

An election upset could send a pro-business Republican to Sacramento and give hope to the moribund state party.

The IRS's leaders refuse to account for the agency's corruption and abuse.

A chronicler of Mao's depredations finds much to worry about in modern China.

It was not the Declaration of Independence that gave us freedom but the Continental Army.

Elections are the only antidote for cadmium rice and other environmental horrors.

Nowhere in Obama's speech did he mention the abiding threat: WMD.

Now Vermont has joined the misguided movement toward physician-assisted suicide.

The Thoroughbred that links the Aga Khan, an heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune and the mother of the Beatles' first drummer. Maryjean Wall reviews James C. Nicholson's "Never Say Die."

The Obama campaign played a big role in a liberal onslaught that far pre-dated Citizens United.

Britain has been in denial about the Islamist threat. Time to face it down.

A road-trip guide to the temples of Texas barbecue. Travis Waddington reviews Daniel Vaughn's "The Prophets of Smoked Meat."

The ceaseless efforts by European nations to dominate their rivals shaped the modern world. Jeffrey Collins reviews Brendan Simms's "Europe."

Benjamin Franklin on the economic folly of export duties.

By the Justice Department's logic, doing basic reporting is committing a crime.

Subsidies, then tariffs, and now fixing prices and quotas.

Tesla by the numbers: How taxpayers made an electric car company.

Coburn's example on disasters and fiscal priorities.

Obama is not a Nixon, says a Crook.

Sgt. Aaron Wittman was killed in January in Afghanistan. Remember him on Memorial Day.