Political Commentary & Opinion

Legendary fashion designed Oscar de la Renta, famous for dressing first ladies ranging from Jackie Kennedy to Laura Bush, died last night at age 82. His death was confirmed by his wife Annette de la Renta, and attributed to complications of an eight-year battle with cancer. De la Renta will go down as one of…

For doctors and nurses treating patients with Ebola, protecting themselves from direct contact with those infected is serious business. During her Fox News show “On the Record” last night, Greta Van Susteren teamed up with Lance Plyler, medical director of the disaster response unit for Samaritan’s Purse, to show viewers the process of putting on…

RALEIGH, N.C.—Consider a few truths about the politics of students at North Carolina State University, a school known for its engineering and agriculture programs and said to be more conservative than the higher-profile University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Political ads turn the students off. They don’t pay attention to the ads, and are…

A taxpayer-funded housing project in Memphis has a host of dangerous safety violations, including problems with mold, exposed electrical wiring and missing locks, among countless other things. The long-troubled housing project is the subject of a new audit from the U.S. Housing and Urban Development’s inspector general. The Memphis Housing Authority receives $40 million in…

MADISON, Wis.—The same election commission that banned a 78-year-old poll monitor from observing next month’s election is pushing a policy that would keep election observers farther away from voters. Wisconsin Act 177, which into effect in April, allows the chief election inspector or municipal clerk to restrict the viewing area of poll observers to an…

Mitt Romney took a lot of heat on the campaign trail in 2012 for saying that “corporations are people …everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people” and suggesting they have rights like everyone else. But are they people? And do they have rights? A panel of legal scholars took on those questions and others Thursday…

CORNISH TOWNSHIP, Minn.—How long is too long? About six years and counting, in the view of dozens of rural residents fighting a proposed 1,600-acre, 10-turbine wind farm in southern Minnesota. “This has been going on, just hanging there, sitting there,” said Barb Wenninger, a Cornish Township resident and longtime opponent of the Sibley Wind Substation…

A dispute between the Republican research firm America Rising and a Wikipedia editor named “Jehochman” has triggered a debate about editing Wikipedia pages during political campaigns. Jonathan Hochman, founder of an Internet marketing and technology firm in Cheshire, Conn., is the man behind Jehochman. In his spare time, Hochman monitors potential conflicts of interest and controversial edits on the free encyclopedia….

Martha Boneta says a regional conservation group has trespassed repeatedly on her small farm in Paris, Va., about an hour outside Washington, D.C. Boneta says the group, the Piedmont Environmental Council, has attempted to drive her off the farm through overzealous zoning enforcement, unwarranted and overly invasive inspections and an IRS audit she says was…

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Chuck Todd this morning on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the World Health Organization was to blame for not adequately preparing U.S. hospitals for cases of Ebola in the United States. Watch the video clip to find out what went wrong. >>> Meet the New…