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The gruelling, eight-month health-care debate typified how lopsided and minority-dominated the Senate has become, writes Alex Spillius.

President Obama lauded the Senate's healthcare reform compromises as well as a symbolic agreeement at the Copenhagen climate-change summit. Both highlight Obama's willingness to accept what is politically possible.

Hannah Arendt used the phrase 'the banality of evil' to describe Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi bureaucrat who hastened millions to their deaths.

'Global' thinking won't necessarily solve the world's problems, says Janet Daley.

Fifty six percent of voters disapprove of the president's handling of health care.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took his GOP-blasting rhetoric to a new level Monday, comparing Republicans who oppose health care reform to lawmakers who clung to the institution of slavery more than a century ago.

 

Charles Moore considers Andrew Marr's account of the first half of the century in 'The Making of Modern Britain', and finds it wanting.

With the death of theology, churches in the US have strayed into social activism. They should stick to what they once did best

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus was romantically involved with a former staffer when he recommended her earlier this year to become the next U.S. attorney for Montana, a spokesman said

The basic answer is that there is simply no other path available today. To be more precise: There is no national goal today other than the goal that the Left has fashioned

Obama's messianic cult simply expected too much of him.

Blacks are living a tale of two Americas — one of the ascension of the first black president; the other of a collapsing quality of life and amplified racial tensions.

The Connecticut senator, free of partisan loyalties, has a pivotal role in the health-care debate.

While liberals and academics, living in gated communities and ivory towers, shout to the rooftops the wonders of multiculturalism—a not-so-silent war gathers beneath the surface of our seemingly peaceful society......

Education has emerged as one of the more contentious fronts in the gubernatorial campaign, with Kay Bailey Hutchison this week releasing a barrage of school proposals and attacks on the status quo. But the differences between the candidates have more to do with execution than with design.