Policy

In the media, President Hugo Chavez seems to be portrayed more commonly these days as a threat to golf, which he considers "bourgeois" and is trying to eradicate in Venezuela, than to regional stability.

Have you tuned in to one of the most significant conversations occurring in our culture today? It's hard to miss. It takes place on college campuses, blogs and YouTube; in churches, convention halls and coffee houses; during concerts, rallies and political debates. The topic appeals especially to an emerging generation of Christians. Many even say it helps determine their vote.

Many Europeans cheered when Barack Obama was elected president. Disdain for his predecessor ran so high that, even in Britain, pollsters found that George W. Bush was considered a greater threat to peace than Kim Jong-il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Only Osama bin Laden outpolled him.

As the prospects for health care reform ebb and flow by the day, one school of thought holds that making modest adjustments rather than enacting large-scale reform could help to avert controversy and command more broad support.

In the wake of losing its supermajority of Democratic senators, the White House has been scrambling to figure out the "art of the possible" to salvage some measure of ObamaCare.

The vast majority of Americans want health-care reform. They just don't want the monstrous telephone-book-size bills now before the House and Senate.

The nation is focused on health care -- again -- as President Obama convenes his highly-touted and supposedly bipartisan summit.

They say that the first step to a recovery is accepting that you have a problem.

The Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security created quite a stir last week. Their reports on terrorism failed to make any reference to the Islamist nature of the threat. It struck Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Republican, as a "glaring omission." It was.

"Culture" can refer to many things. But for those who work to advance freedom, the primary concern must be how culture shapes individuals who will guard and exercise that freedom.

A group that thinks a Super Bowl ad celebrating Tim Tebow's life is bad news for women might be a little out of touch with what women really want.

In a time when many are calling for the end of capitalism, entrepreneurship and the free market in Latin America, Chile is marching to the beat of a different drummer. And its tune is likely to deliver continued economic growth.