In Afghanistan, the Democrats now have an opportunity — which is also a problem — that their past objectives may let blow away. The opportunity is to reclaim their old role as a party of power, established in the last century by a cadre of center-left hawks. Read More

Poor, sincere Jim Pouillon was sitting across from a Michigan school holding his posters protesting fetus-killing when a car passed by, shots rang out and life fled from him as surely as it flees from those aborted fetuses he worried about. Some questions come to mind. Will we have commentators suggesting that violence sums up a major portion of a largely maladjusted abortion rights crowd? Read More

President Barack Obama will not improve education by making speeches in front of America’s schoolchildren. A better approach would be to start a nationwide tuition voucher program that would enable low-income parents to afford the same type of education he’s able to provide for his own daughters. Read More

In a new book, Sam Tanenhaus, The New York Times Book Review editor, proclaims the death of conservatism. Movement leaders’ devotion to “radical” anti-government ideology, Tanenhaus argues, has left them “trapped in the irrelevant causes of another day, deaf to the actual conversation unfolding across the land.” Read More