MANAGUA, Nicaragua—In 2006, after 26 years of “ruling from below,” former Sandinista comandante Daniel Ortega won his second bid for president with a legitimate 38 percent of the vote. In 2011, he won an unconstitutional third term with 60 percent of…

IN THE EARLY 1980s, soon after the publication of Wealth & Poverty, I received a phone call from a man with a mellow mid-Southern accent, honed from roots in rural Tennessee and long years talking down to top executives of…

The root cause of Middle Eastern turmoil, according to a broad consensus of the international media and the considered cerebrations of the deepest-thinking movie stars, is Israeli settlers in what are described as the “occupied territories” on the West Bank…

CALIFORNIA’S TREASURER BILL LOCKYER has a bridge he wants to sell you. No, he is not putting the Golden Gate on the market. That would actually find buyers. He is trying to foist a “bridge loan” on the country that…