WASHINGTON -- The sense of helplessness that follows a tragedy is too much for us. So we fill the silence after the sirens with explanations. This is very human -- until it becomes inhuman.

For some, the immediate response to events in Boston was...

WASHINGTON -- Since the Eisenhower administration, the United States generally has done food aid in a certain way: grow and pack it in America, ship it across the world on American-flagged ships, then deliver it through American charities, which ...

WASHINGTON -- Post-World War II Great Britain was the full, fearless application of modern liberalism -- what Margaret Thatcher called "those banal and bureaucratic instruments of coercion, confiscatory taxation, nationalization and oppressive ...

WASHINGTON -- Over the years, Americans have come to discount statements on Israel and Zionism by Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Repetition has rendered them unremarkable.

Israel must be "wiped off the map." Zionism is a "germ of ...

WASHINGTON -- The school choice movement -- which germinated 50 years ago in free-market economist Milton Friedman's fertile mind -- recently counted its largest victory. The Indiana Supreme Court unanimously upheld the constitutionality of the ...

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WASHINGTON -- At the Normandy American Cemetery on the cliff above Omaha Beach, there are rows and rows of crosses and Stars of David. Certainly, many buried there were not religious. But the overwhelming majority of ...