Several years ago, when Dick Teresi was a volunteer at the Fisher Home Hospice in Amherst, Mass., nurses assigned him a demanding patient. Thomas, who was young by hospice standards, wanted nothing more than to enjoy the heavy metal music of his youth and indulge his sexual fantasies. Teresi was det... More of this article

The United States is on the hunt for Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, the al-Qaeda master bombmaker behind the just-thwarted plot to bring down a U.S.-bound jetliner. If previous patterns hold, at some point in the coming weeks or months a drone launched from a secret CIA base will take al-Asiri out —... More of this article

Editors note: In this article, Karlyn Bowman and Andrew Rugg, research assistant, discuss the public's opinion about raising taxes on high-income individuals, views about flat tax proposals, and attitudes about how President Obama has handled tax policy. We begin On the Margin's fourth annual look ... More of this article

JP Morgan's $2 billion loss was less than 1/1,000th the size of the bank and only 0.5 percent the size of the portfolio the bank was trying to protect. Editor's note: The following article is an opposing view to USA Today's related editorial, "Whale of a loss feeds needs for rules." The $2 billi... More of this article

It has been over three years (1,111 days to be precise) since the U.S. Senate last passed a budget. The last time Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) fulfilled his legal responsibility, Conan was still on NBC, Tea Parties hadn’t come together and the iPad hadn’t yet been introduced.... More of this article

The State of California keeps sinking into a deeper hole of debt, with reports showing that the state’s budget shortfall is projected to be $16 billion, up from $9.2 billion in January. But despite all the red ink, the state is still going ahead with a high-speed rail boondoggle that woul... More of this article

Over the weekend, Hollywood brought back a popular TV horror show/soap opera that ended its run in 1971. That, however, is not the only flashback from the days of disco getting attention these days. Comparing President Obama’s impact on foreign affairs to former President Jimmy Carter has also... More of this article

Global governance, the next new thing in trendy international thought, has been typically portrayed as the nearly inevitable evolution upward from the primitive nation-state and its antiquated notions of constitutionalism and popular sovereignty. Not “world government,”wildly unpopular a... More of this article

Editors note: This article is also written by Gary Schmitt, a Resident Scholar, Co-Director of the Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies and Director of the Program on American Citizenship at the American Enterprise Institute. When he was director of central intelligence, Leon Panetta earned a r... More of this article

For several weeks now it’s been clear that Putin won’t attend this month’s NATO summit in Chicago. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen recently spoke with Russia’s new/old president and explained that it’s “not possible and not practical” for Putin ... More of this article

Long-term unemployment for older workers takes a staggering toll — increasing illness and mortality rates and reducing children's earning capacity. The American economy is experiencing a crisis in long-term unemployment that has enormous human and economic costs. In 2007, before the Great ... More of this article

After more than three years in office, the Obama Administration still is blaming the Bush Administration for its own difficulties. On Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden made yet another attempt to pass the buck, claiming that the Bush Administration’s Iran policy was flawed and left the U.S.... More of this article

Did you know that President Obama’s “Yes, We Can” Administration has been funding a research project to invent a composite index that measures happiness? Yes, you read right—an aggregate index that aims to compute your happiness, mine, and our nation’s. Everybody wan... More of this article

The Obama administration’s recent focus on finding a compromise to allow the Iranian regime to maintain some enrichment capabilities “for peaceful purposes” distracts from the underlying nuclear threat at hand. Any outcome short of the verifiable dismantling and end ... More of this article

Barry Goldwater shocked the nation’s political class, and is said to have thrown away his chances at winning the 1964 election, with his infamous line that “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the defense of justice is no virtue.” Today a growing choru... More of this article

Soon, you won't only be responsible for managing your disease -- you may also be expected to help find your own cure. Patients who take a close look at medical science in search of treatments are often appalled by what they discover. On the one hand, there's academic research, a self-contained an... More of this article

Roosevelt reluctantly unleashed industry to win World War II, thereby laying the groundwork for America's economic recovery. If President Obama still wants to turn our economy around, it's time for him to act more like Franklin Roosevelt — but not in the way he might think. It takes a speci... More of this article

The anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death last week focused attention briefly on the continued threat posed by al Qaeda. Too much of that attention has been devoted to al Qaeda Central itself—the remnants of bin Laden’s organization that continue to reside in Pakistan under the le... More of this article

America’s involvement in Colombia stands as a positive example of how military forces and aid can secure American interests and improve the lives of local citizens. Twenty years ago, the Madellín cartel ruled much of Colombia with an iron fist. Drug enforcers paid off judges, the police... More of this article

Which politicians do you trust more to micromanage your health care: federal or state? That’s the false choice presented by two versions of “federalism” intended to divide responsibility for health policy between the national government and the states. One version is the Republi... More of this article