The German chancellor can save her open-door policy, but she’ll have to spend billions on a pay-off.

A broadside attack of originalism is sloppy, flawed, and vulgar. 

There is a Japanese proverb that goes, “Faith makes even the head of a sardine the object of worship.” That’s the sort of devotion that seems to be driving many Americans to buy overpriced organic products such as food, bed linens, pillows and clothes, sales of which increased 83% between 2007 and 2012.

Even by the standards of an epically polarized Washington, the political talk about President Obama’s effort to close the Guantá namo Bay prison is starkly divorced from facts. On both sides of the debate, many claims collapse under scrutiny.