March 5, 2012

For reasons of congressional action (and inaction) that will be clear to the readers of these pages, the Pentagon’s budget is being squeezed. And for reasons that have never been ...

At this point, it remains unclear how much calm the Obama administration’s “compromise” on its mandate requiring all insurance plans to cover contraception will restore. The “compromise” conceded nothing to ...

In 2012, a number of institutions that long defined how Americans communicated are teetering near the brink of collapse. Major newspapers in cities across the country have stopped publishing. Strip-mall ...

At the end of this new biography of Dwight Eisenhower, the author quotes Ike’s grandson David asking Mamie Eisenhower whether she had really known her husband. “I’m not sure anyone ...

David Satter has written two books that uneasily coexist under the same cover. The first is a welcome, if inadequately balanced, account of the failure of post-Communist Russia to come ...

‘Faith is a very, very important part of my life,” said Rick Santorum in a recent Republican presidential debate in Florida, “but it’s a very, very important part of this ...

Many volumes of poems are published every year that are both regrettable and unmemorable. Often prosaic and just as often obscure, they emote a near-constant deadening roar about social repression ...

ROOFING Lapping each course in record two-four time, The three-tab shingles overran the roof Above, as hammer blows rained down hard rhyme To render what was overhead sure proof Against the elements. Three workers struck, Their ...

On Thatcher’s ‘Defeat’ Near the end of John O’Sullivan’s review of the new Margaret Thatcher biopic (“The Lioness in Winter,” January 23), I was struck by the reference to “her defeat ...