Beamer likens the decision by Attorney General Holder to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on trial in Manhattan to the outrage of September 11 itself. He criticizes this week's Senate hearings on the matter, noting that the attorney general's testimony did nothing to reassure the families of 9/11's victims. ...

Aggressive globalization and a lack of a coherent industrial policy for America were the factors that destroyed Detroit, not the riots, Herbert says. A lack of policy has impacted the US economy as a whole because the industrial base has sustained so many US families. If the economy is to recover, America ...

The president says he understands the urgency of our fiscal crisis, but Holtz-Eakin argues that his policies are the equivalent of steering the economy toward an iceberg. The best option for dealing with the prospect of grave economic turmoil would be for the president to halt Congress's rush to fiscal ...

Blow says asking whether a civil or military trial is the best venue for securing a conviction of September 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is a fair question. Yet he says questioning whether New York City can handle the trial is insulting to New Yorkers, who live with the threat of terrorism every ...

The race to succeed California's Gov. Schwarzenegger is shaping up to be the most captivating election in the country next year. Kaminski considers the prospects for rookie candidate and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman for governor of California. The hot election issue will be the economy, and it's far ...

Americans hate change, but Collins says quitting while one is at the top of one's game like Oprah is doing is not a bad thing. Making a graceful departure is desperately needed in politics, and Collins looks at some politicians who might have looked better if they had quite while they were ahead, such ...

Currency appreciation is exposing the ineptitude of Japan's new government. When a country is in deflation, as Japan is today, a strong currency must be countered by more stimulating fiscal, monetary, or regulatory policies, or some combination of all three. Japan needs deregulation of its labor and ...

Of the $1 billion in clean-energy stimulus money spent since the beginning of September, $850 million has gone to foreign wind companies. The 11 US wind farms that received stimulus money from the Treasury have imported 695 of the 982 wind turbines to be installed, creating 4,500 jobs overseas. That's ...

The disproportionately heavy dependence on coal in China is unique among major economies and has made China the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases. With coal reserves estimated to last only 50 years and in an attempt to combat environmental and ecological damage, recent years have seen increasing ...

If someone told you that a particular corporation was trashing the air, water and soil; causing more global warming than the transportation industry; consuming massive amounts of fossil fuel; unleashing the cruelest sort of suffering on innocent and sentient beings; failing to recycle its waste; and ...