Robert Goodlatte (R-Va.), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has vowed to conduct a comprehensive review of our nation's copyright laws to determine whether they are "still working in a digital age." That's a long overdue task. But there's a danger that the process will be dominated by a handful of special interest groups […]

When Medicare released thousands of health-care prices this month, one of the biggest criticisms was that these figures didn't represent what patients actually paid. Medicare, for example, pays hospitals on a set fee schedule, regardless of their prices. Health insurance plans typically negotiate a lower rate with a hospital than the sticker price that […]

This much is clear from the first hour of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on Apple's steps to avoid paying billions in U.S. corporate income tax: It will be primarily an exercise in righteous indignation for the senators present; and there will be at least one lawmaker with a quite different take. Read full article >>   […]

Just 16 minutes before a gigantic twister formed near Oklahoma City on Tuesday, the National Weather Service put out a tornado warning. That doesn't sound like very much time to get out of the way. And for many, it wasn't: At least 51 people died when the tornado tore a wide swath through the city of Moore, Okla. Read full article >>     […]