One of the reasons the Vatican decided to launch an investigation of U.S. women religious? Feminism. Tablet Rome correspondent Robert Mickens reports: The official that initiated the Vatican’s investigation of women religious in the United States...

In light of some recent discussion on the topic here, I thought I would offer my own thoughts about whether health care reform will “work.”  Let me begin by saying that I fully expect that some things will not work out the way reformers expect. ...

Ezra Klein is a liberal blogger who has made a name for himself as a sort of health care “policy wonk”.  In my own biased opinion, he has tended to focus almost exclusively on the evils of the insurance industry in creating our current rotten...

Does anyone commenting here live in District 23? I’d love to know what you all thought about Owens’s victory. And why you and your neighbors voted as you did.

We in New York are at this hour surprised to learn that we’ve actually had an interesting mayoral race. Our billionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg, spent what will probably amount to $100 million to assure that there would be absolutely no suspense on...