The most popular politician in Massachusetts? Why, it's newly elected Republican Senator Scott Brown.

Paul Krugman continues to bang the drum for more government spending to avert another economic depression (which he believes would be the third in our history after the Long Depression which followed the panic of 1873 and the Great Depression which followed the stock market collapse of 1929).

Krugman's views continue to get hammered by people both in Europe and America.

Robert J. Samuelson says economists like Krugman may be relying on a science that is dubious and shaky, at best.

Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia is dead at age 92.