By trying the masterminds of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in a federal courthouse, the United States is at risk of supplying key intelligence to terrorists. (Page A15, 735 words)By: Jeff Jacoby|Date: Nov 18, 2009

The president couldn't be troubled to visit Berlin to commemorate a momentous milestone in the history of human liberty. But he was glad to explain to those who were there why reflections on that milestone should inspire appreciation for the self-made "destiny" of his own rise to power. (Page A9, 714 words)By: Jeff Jacoby|Date: Nov 14, 2009

It's time for supporters of same-sex marriage to stop caricaturing opponents as the equivalent of Jim Crow-era segregationists. (Page A11, 676 words)By: Jeff Jacoby|Date: Nov 11, 2009

Enlarge the House, and it would fill with new blood, new thinking, and new energy. Elections would be more competitive, since it would take fewer votes to win. The House would grow more diverse, more lively, more representative. (Page K9, 739 words)By: Jeff Jacoby|Date: Nov 8, 2009

If President Obama really wants choice and competition, we need to tear down interstate barriers on insurance, drop many mandated benefits, and de-link insurance from employment. (Page A13, 724 words)By: Jeff Jacoby|Date: Nov 4, 2009

For all the impassioned talk about obscene profits and bodies piling up, an Associated Press report found that "health insurance profit margins typically run about 6 percent" of revenue, a return "that's anemic compared with other forms of insurance and a broad array of industries." (Page K9, 736 words)By: Jeff Jacoby|Date: Nov 1, 2009

The American Booksellers Association is asking the US Department of Justice last week for an investigation into the "predatory" behavior of online retailers selling some bestsellers at below market prices -- but they overestimate the risk to traditional bookstores. (Page A15, 740 words)By: Jeff Jacoby|Date: Oct 28, 2009

Of the five Democrats on the stage at the Kennedy Library last night, the one who struck me as most senatorial was the moderator. Unlike the candidates, only Peter Meade seemed consistently willing to acknowledge that the job of a senator often involves making difficult trade-offs. (Page A11, 294 words)By: Jeff Jacoby|Date: Oct 27, 2009

For 35 years, Citizens for Limited Taxation has operated on a shoestring. The group's annual fund-raising brunch on Nov. 15 may be its last hurrah: If turnout is low, says co-director Chip Ford, it will shut down on Nov. 16. (Page K9, 729 words)By: Jeff Jacoby|Date: Oct 25, 2009

Twenty years ago this season, Moscow's Eastern European satellites threw off their chains. In a matter of months, the communist regimes in Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania were consigned to the ash heap of history. (Page A13, 763 words)By: Jeff Jacoby|Date: Oct 21, 2009

California's government may well be dysfunctional, and its constitution is indeed festooned with more than 500 amendments. But only 43 of those amendments were originated by voters. (Page K9, 723 words)By: Jeff Jacoby|Date: Oct 18, 2009

The "peace process" to which all the recent US presidents, their sharp differences notwithstanding, have been so committed is not a formula for ending the decades-long war in the Holy Land, but for prolonging it. (Page A11, 747 words)By: Jeff Jacoby|Date: Oct 14, 2009

Now, no one is ever going to catch me boasting about how easy it is to come up with column topics to write about. I find the coming-up-with almost as hard as the writing, and writing for me has never been easy. (Page K9, 758 words)By: Jeff Jacoby|Date: Oct 11, 2009

There's a reason why the Nobel Peace Prize so often sets off heated political arguments: It's conferred by politicians.By: Jeff Jacoby|Date: Oct 9, 2009

Though it hasn't been true for years, many people believe that government employees receive lavish employment and retirement benefits in order to compensate for their meager paychecks. The reality is that their paychecks aren't meager at all. (Page A17, 729 words)By: Jeff Jacoby|Date: Sep 30, 2009

It's bad enough that American adults watch so much TV. That so many kids wallow in it veers on child abuse. (Page K9, 734 words)By: Jeff Jacoby|Date: Sep 27, 2009

Coercive health insurance mandates are a prescription for more misery, not less. Massachusetts is learning that lesson the hard way. The rest of America doesn't have to. (Page A15, 780 words)By: Jeff Jacoby|Date: Sep 23, 2009

Taking no right turns The liberalism of American Jews is as stubborn as it is longstanding. Jews have voted Democratic in every presidential election since 1928, and, with the exception of Jimmy Carter in 1980, no Democrat in all those decades has attracted less than 60 percent of the Jewish vote. The average has been closer to 75 percent. (Page K5, 916 words)By: Jeff Jacoby|Date: Sep 20, 2009

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of Science, and the Congressional Gold Medal. Scores of universities conferred honorary degrees upon him. Yet until last weekend, when he died at 95, you could have asked 1,000 people at random, and chances are 998 of them would never have heard of Norman Borlaug. (Page A15, 748 words)By: Jeff Jacoby|Date: Sep 16, 2009

It may seem noble to declare that health care is a fundamental human right and not a mere commodity to be left to the vagaries of the market. Of course, the same thing could be said about food or clothing, yet not even Ted Kennedy would have suggested that Washington nationalize US food production or overhaul the clothing industry. (Page K9, 726 words)By: Jeff Jacoby|Date: Sep 13, 2009