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By manipulating offshore havens, bogus bailouts and other loopholes, US corporations have gotten their tax rates down to a forty-year low.

Just three years ago, President Obama was an unapologetic Keynesian. Now, he's jumped on the deficit hysteria bandwagon.

Across the Greater Middle East from Tunisia and Egypt to Bahrain and Yemen, democratic protests are threatening to sweep away subordinate elites crucial to the wielding of American power.

Support for democracy is the province of ideologists and propagandists. In the real world, elite dislike of democracy is the norm.

The history of our nation has many rich and vibrant hues—some of them red.

The problem with mankind wielding nuclear power isn’t about backup generators or safety rules—it’s our essential human fallibility.

Whatever the outcome of the protests, uprisings and rebellions now sweeping the Middle East, one thing is guaranteed: the world of oil will be permanently transformed.

A budget plan that cuts over 200 federal programs and expands military spending reveals the president's misplaced priorities.

This year’s conservative confab was strained by discord, with gays pitted against the Christian right and Islamophobes battling conservative Muslims.

Was Obama’s appeal to US competitiveness just about beating the Chinese and Indians—or doing right by Americans?