News Analysis

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) joins other House Republicans to tell members of the media about their plan to reform the Congressional budget process in Washington, December 7, 2011. (Photo: …

By now, you’d think we’d be entering the end of the 9/11 era. One war over in the Greater Middle East, another hurtling disastrously to its end, and …

(Photo: 401K) Will corporate spending determine the outcomes of the 2012 elections? Academic research shows that when companies spend money on politics, they earn a significant financial …

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Marine Maj. Gen. Mark Gurganus, commanding general, NATO Regional Command-South West exit a U.S. Marine V-22 Osprey at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, March 14, …

Many evangelicals wear their religion on T-shirts and around their necks and on car bumpers and eye-blacks. They hand out tracts on college campuses and stage revival meetings on …

Egyptian youths use laptops to post video of the protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, February 7, 2011. (Photo: Ed Ou / …

(Photo: Evil Erin) A new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by forbidding health care professionals from sharing information they learn about certain chemicals and procedures used in …

Ali Larijani, senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei. (Photo: Lynsey Addario / The New York Times) On July 23, 2011, a 35-year-old Iranian electrical engineering …

Almost 47 years to the day after a peaceful voting rights march in Selma, Alabama, ended in violence on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, a federal court in Philadelphia struck …

The bully came to Washington. The American president told him in no uncertain terms that the United States would not support a military attack on Iran at this moment. …