Wall Street Journal

The people are here, and (President Barack Obama) is there. The popularity of his health care plan is very low, at 35 percent support. Someone on television the other day...

The only good news out of the Fort Hood massacre is that U.S. electronic surveillance technology was able to pick up Major Hasan's phone calls to an al-Qaida-loving imam in...

We are governed at all levels by America's luckiest children, sons and daughters of the abundance, and they call themselves optimists but they're not optimists -- they're unimaginative. They don't...

... Mr. Obama had racked up big wins -- the stimulus, children's health insurance, House approval of cap-and-trade. But he stayed too long at the hot table. All the Democrats...

In a rite that has become as familiar to them as Springsteen selling out the Meadowlands--but, alas, far more prevalent--New Jersey voters again had to endure a money-grubbing herd of...

Until recently, the problem of the jerk in the workplace seemed to be a matter of paramount national importance. The knuckleheads, slobs and social misfits in question were those maddening...

Republicans shouldn't follow South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint and welcome Mr. Specter's defection as an ideological cleansing. "I would rather have 30 Republicans in the Senate who really believe in...

AIG's managers may be this week's political target of choice, but the message to every banker in America, indeed every business in America, is that you could be next. At...

Never underestimate the capacity of Chicago politics for spectacle. ... By now it's clear enough that the problem is less Mr. Burris or Mr. Blagojevich than the entire rotten Illinois...

The national conversation on the economy is frozen, and has been for a while. Republicans say tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts. Democrats say spend, new programs, more money. You...