May 13, 2014, marks one year since Philadelphia abortion Dr. Kermit Gosnell was convicted of first-degree murder “in the deaths of three babies who were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy, ‘house of horrors’ clinic,” according to the Associated Press. Gosnell instantly became the face of …

Brandeis University committed an honor killing this week. The victim was a Somali woman named Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Honor killings are depressingly common in the Middle East: punishment for women guilty of being raped, losing their virginity outside of marriage, adultery, dressing provocatively or simply embarrassing a male relative. These …

Bitcoin believers were shaken to their digital souls when Mt. Gox, the world’s largest exchange, defaulted on $470 million worth of deposits and closed last week. The virtual currency was supposed to provide a safer, more private and less costly alternative to money issued by governments, but lacking the imprimatur …

The economy grew 2.6 percent in the fourth quarter—hardly the 4 to 5 percent needed to provide enough jobs and restore housing prices to pre-recession levels. Throughout 2013, higher taxes on all income classes—President Obama’s levies on the wealthy, higher local taxes on the middle class, and reinstatement of social …

Servicemen and women who have worn our country’s uniform and bravely fought for freedom are losing their lives all too often – not at the hands of terrorists or enemy combatants, but from government medical malpractice. This week Congress is considering a $24 billion bill that is supposed to improve …

Inequality is President Obama’s highest priority, but his solutions are wholly naive. Disparities between rich and poor are as ancient as civilization, but in modern democracies, this condition is exacerbated by globalization and technologies that drive it. Successive advances in communication and transportation, for example, permit top opera singers, athletes …

Pope Francis was probably not looking at the Jewish calendar when he released his new apostolic exhortation, “Evangelii Gaudium,” (The Joy of the Gospel), it was a serendipitous Chanukah gift, that brought joy to the Jewish world. The document is full of warmth to Jews and Judaism. It speaks of …

Can the Republican Party win the youth vote in 2014? I believe it can – but it has to transform itself first. For generations, the strength of America has been this simple concept: no matter where you start from, you are free to be anything you want. Unfortunately, those born …

If Republicans were smart (I know, but stay with me) their focus during the ObamaCare debate should have been less on blocking its implementation and more on a page they might have taken from the Democrat’s playbook, which is to rally the country to its side by use of sentimentality …

The worst thing a woman can be in a relationship? Silent. The art of expressing ourselves in living words, not typed ones, is proving increasingly challenging. Here are 16 things I, like many of you, wish I learned to say to a man right as I came of age instead …