In difficult economic times - and these are definitely difficult economic times - it is normal for conservative politicians to pursue hard-pressed voters by raising the specter of tax hikes. McCain is doing it now, playing on the fear that an Obama administration would add to the weekly pressures on...

One of the great hidden issues of this presidential campaign season has been immigration. So dominant an issue in 2006 and 2007, immigration reform - for all the heat it used to generate - has now dropped way down the agenda of national politics. But not for long: early in...