Sonia Sotomayor's public statements are, like those of all recent Supreme Court nominees of both parties, being subjected to absurd hyper-scrutiny. But one statement by Sotomayor is deeply vexing, that her "national origins" impact her judging. Her national origin is American!

News accounts and cable-news shouting are depicting Sotomayor as...

What should Bernard Madoff's victims have known and when should they have known it? And what about the hidden 2007 George W. Bush administration decision that helped enable Madoff's crimes?

The first question has a simple answer: most of them should have known from the start not to invest with...

Antidepressant use is declining and youth suicide is rising -- should the linkage between these events be viewed as some huge surprise, as the media now imply in the wake of yesterday's Centers for Disease Control report?

Three years ago I wrote an article for New Republic (it's here,...

With Rudy Giuliani's fuzzy-math claims about his performance with the New York City budget in the news, it's time to look at some suspect claims made by Mitt Romney about his performance in Massachusetts. "Elected in 2002, Governor Romney presided over a dramatic reversal of state fortunes and a period...

Today in Washington I was in the room as the greatest living American received a medal. George W. Bush, Nancy Pelosi and others were present. But will you ever hear this event occurred? To judge from tonight's major network evening newscasts, perhaps not. Cameras were allowed at the ceremony but...

The American Bar Association just called George W. Bush's signing statements a "threat to our Republic." Walter Dellinger, a Democrat and one of the nation's most respected legal scholars, just countered that "every modern president" has asserted the authority Bush now asserts. At issue is whether the president...

A rain of Biblical proportions strikes Washington, D.C. A moisture-thick weather structure, specifically a "stalled front," hangs over the city, dropping hour after hour of blinding rain -- more precipitation in a few days than the city usually sees in an entire spring. Weirdly the rain just keeps coming, as...