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"Wild" is Cheryl Strayed's account of how hiking the Pacific Crest Trail put her unraveling life into perspective.

Novelist Jane Harris on tales that invite the reader to puzzle over complex characters, from Vladimir Nabokov's splendidly elusive "Pale Fire" to Barbara Vine's suspenseful "A Fatal Inversion."

Tribes are proving they can do better with less supervision from Washington.

Rick Santorum has a very good chance of scoring a major victory in Saturday's Republican presidential primary in Louisiana, but the big question is whether it will still matter.

Disestablishment of Religion 10-8-09

The Obama administration turned over 432 pages of e-mail communications and other documents Friday to congressional Republicans investigating the collapse of the solar energy firm Solyndra, the White House said.

Tom Perriello says that behind the new GOP budget plan is the theory that the richest Americans create jobs and add to the economy

A party that was once dominated by Protestants, the Republicans are now heavily influenced by conservative Catholics, says Tim Stanley

Mohamed Merah was practically a prince in violent extremist circles.

A reason the NYPD follows young Muslim students.

Cuba tries to silence a dissident ahead of Pope Benedict's visit.

Estate tax repeal gains momentum in the states.

Julian Castro is not cooperating. The mayor of San Antonio knows full well what I want to talk about, and yet he is determined to change the subject to what he believes is a much more pressing story. Where I want to drag him, my friend refuses to go.

Centralized welfare systems are necessarily run by a bureaucratic leadership that cannot master the knowledge needed to manage a complex society.

The company's vast cash stockpile is the opposite of a comfort to its shareholders.

How to lose friends and alienate justices.

By Jason L. Riley Justice Alito gives Congress a re-writing assignment.

The Supreme Court will hear landmark arguments over the future of health care reform. CNN's Kate Bolduan has a preview.

The second anniversary of President Barack Obama's signing into law the landmark and controversial health care reform measure brought, as expected, fierce attacks from Republicans.

GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney goes after President Obama's health care plan on its two-year anniversary.