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After a half-century of far more graphic slasher movies, a genre pretty much kicked off by "Psycho" itself, why does this dark little film continue to captivate and unsettle us?...

If the GOP is going to appeal to independent voters, it has to confront its own corporate allies. "Republicans need to find a populist edge again," says Craig Shirley, the...

President Obama spoke airily about reducing inefficiency, but he slid past the hard choices that will have to be made to stop health care from devouring ever-larger slices of the...

August ended with the unembarrassable administration uttering a $2 trillion "Oops!" by estimating that the 10-year budget-deficit projection is about $9 trillion rather than $7.1 trillion. The supposed means of...

When President Barack Obama reached out to Iran with a Persian New Year greeting in March, [supreme leader Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei responded that if the United States changed its behavior,...

Nowadays, green reasoning is the first refuge of scoundrels. Global warming has become like God: It is an explanation for everything and an all-purpose excuse for the political class to...

Obama has more troubles to deal with, foreign and domestic, than anybody since FDR. One day last month, he faced decisions about the fate of Detroit, a new strategy for...

Not long ago, American culture abhorred lawyers, mistrusted journalists and envied bankers. Today we ignore lawyers, pity journalists and despise those who are connected to Wall Street -- for undermining...

During World War II, Oscar Levant, the pianist and wit, was asked by his draft board, "Do you think you can kill?" He replied, "I don't know about strangers, but...

By 2010 Americans will be a trillion dollars in the hole on credit-card debt alone. ... Hard times offer the opportunity to ask hard questions, and one of them is...