In light of the tragic killing of black teenager Trayvon Martin — and the manufactured hysteria surrounding it — one thing needs to be stated as clearly and as often as possible: The United States is the least racist and least xenophobic co…

Apparently, many liberals were disappointed in the administration’s defense of Obamacare before the Supreme Court. They felt that the government’s lawyer, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, did not respond effectively to the challenges of s…

In his “Economic Scene” column in the New York Times last week, Eduardo Porter wrote, “The United States does less than other rich countries to transfer income from the affluent to the less fortunate.”
Think about that sentence …

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has gone to the United Nations — specifically the U.N. Human Rights Council — for, in the words of USA Today, “help battling what the organization views as forces attempti…

After 25 years of lecturing on happiness, writing a book on the subject (Happiness Is a Serious Problem), and devoting an hour of my radio show every week for the last 13 years to happiness, here are some conclusions about who is happy.
People who cont…