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With Republicans moving ever further to the right and Democrats to the left — though not so far as Republicans are to the right — there really is a crying need for a centrist alternative. President Barack Obama hopes to win re-election with populist appeals for “fairness,” meaning raising taxes on the highest earners regardless…

After playing (price) tag for more than a year, Apple Inc., the iconic symbol of Generation Y, recently blew past Exxon Mobil Corp. and is riding the wave of success following the release of its new iPad. With its market capitalization pegged at more than $550 billion, the technology giant achieved the uncontested title of…

Catholic bishops, evangelical pastors and Republican presidential candidates have been decrying the Obama administration’s war on religious liberty. Amid all the uproar, it’s easy to overlook something equally important: the administration’s many battles for religious liberty. The president has gotten deserved criticism for trying to force Catholic colleges and hospitals to buy insurance coverage for…

THE $26 billion foreclosure settlement deal announced this month arrived in the final throes of Hollywood’s annual awards season. It also arrived too late for my neighbor, a screenwriter and director who moved out of her two-bedroom house the week before last, after her bank foreclosed on the property. There had been no “For Sale”…