Gene Healy

PresidentÃÂ ObamaÃÂ signs an executive order in the East Room of the White House. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Presidents Day: What’s to celebrate?

Gene Healy · February 17, 2014 5:00 am

"House of Cards" hardly a flattering portrait of the political animal.

‘House of Cards’ may not be realistic, but it’s enjoyable

Gene Healy · February 10, 2014 5:00 am

No Labels is no real alternative to conventional politics

No Labels is no real alternative to conventional politics

Gene Healy · February 3, 2014 5:00 am

President Obama delivers his 2011 State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Most Americans shrug at State of the Union spectacle

Gene Healy · January 28, 2014 5:00 am

Prominent House Dem admits not enough young people are going to sign up for Obamacare

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Prominent House Dem admits not enough young people are going to sign up for Obamacare

Melissa Quinn · January 27, 2014 5:25 am

President Obama says he maintains a "healthy skepticism towards our surveillance programs," but has toned down his rhetoric since the details leaked by Edward Snowden. (AP File)

Obama reveals himself as a champion of the surveillance state

Gene Healy · January 20, 2014 5:00 am

A year later, the legislative legacy of the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., is far less dramatic than it might have been. (Photo by Connecticut State Police via Getty images)

Newtown: The moral panic that wasn’t

Gene Healy · January 13, 2014 5:00 am

The year's worst op-eds covered everything from impeachment to the National Security Agency. (Photo: Thinkstock)

The five worst op-eds of 2013

Gene Healy · December 30, 2013 5:00 am

On June 7, the week after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed the agency's secret collection of call records data on millions of Americans, President Obama said he "welcomed the debate" on the program. (AP File)

Obama’s ‘I welcome the debate’ on NSA spying is the real ‘Lie of the Year’

Gene Healy · December 23, 2013 5:00 am

A president with a fleet of drones, a "kill list" and databases of Americans' personal information has enough power. (Getty Images File)

David Brooks’ paean to presidential power is year’s worst op-ed

Gene Healy · December 17, 2013 5:00 am

A Pew survey of some 2,000 Americans shows 51 percent believe that the U.S. does too much in helping solve world problems. (AP File)

It’s not isolationist for America to mind its own business

Gene Healy · December 10, 2013 5:00 am

An technician works at the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan, 255 miles south of Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007. (AP File)

Negotiating with Iran is better than war

Gene Healy · December 3, 2013 5:00 am