Little fuss has been made about the Democratic presidential candidates’ views on higher education spending. The Higher Education and Lifetime Learning Act — proposed last year by Democrats Evan Bayh and Rahm Emanuel and now mired in Congressional committees with…

JP Morgan Chase and Co. harvested a bright new recruit in early January. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair joined the venerable U.S. bank as a senior advisor. He will provide “briefings on political trends” to the company’s senior management…

“I’ve led a government that has taken this country from deep debt to strong prosperity…. I’ve led a government that has reformed the Australian economy and left it the envy of the world….We bequeath to Labor a nation that is…