At the Fox News-Google Republican debate in Orlando last week, Rick Perry was-as usual-in the cross-hairs. Rick Santorum, the former Senator from Pennsylvania, had one of the most memorable lines of the evening. Said Santorum, " gave a speech in 2001 where he talked about bi-national health insurance between ...

.... What 's going on? "The desire to disbelieve deepens as the scale of the threat grows," concludes economist-ethicist Clive Hamilton. He and others who track what they call "denialism" find that its nature is changing in America, last redoubt of climate naysayers. It has taken on ...

..... The issues, in short, are who can get to 270 electoral votes and whether Perry is too bluntly conservative to be viable in large swaths of purple America. Choice A: The Hippocratic oath strategy - first do no harm. Under this approach, the party would nominate the safe-but-not-sexy ...