James Taranto: "Rick Perry was awful in last night's debate. Just awful."

"The swaggering Texas governor kept scrapping with the chipper Mitt Romney, and he kept losing.... The low point came when he seized on...

Chris Christie may run for the GOP nomination.

A decision is forthcoming. "I think what the country is thirsting for, more than anything else right now, is someone of stature and cr...

The Meadhouse harvest continues.

The "parent trigger" law lets 51% of parents petition to change a failing school and replace all the teachers or close it or turn it into a charter school.

A strange experiment going on in a California, Texas, Ohio, and Connecticut (and under consideration in many more states): In essence, the l...

"California Jury Convicts 10 Muslim Students of Interrupting Campus Speech."

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports: The students interrupted a February 2010 speech by Michael Oren, the Israeli ambassador to the Un...

A Meadhouse harvest.

Sara Goldrick-Rab imposes a racial critique on last week's affirmative-action protest at the Doubletree Hotel.

Remember last Tuesday: Roger Clegg of the Center for Equal Opportunity had a press conference to announce 2 studies that, he said, showed th...