At high school graduations in Pittsfield, Massachusetts it’s not uncommon to see an 18-year-old walk across the stage, get her diploma, and then smile and wave to her 3-year-old child in the audience. Some say teen pregnancy is an epidemic in America. This country has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the industrialized world. [...]

President Bush’s State of the Union came early this year, and that was no accident. Delivered one day after the Iowa caucuses and a week before the New Hampshire primary, the speech was designed to steal the political spotlight from the president’s Democratic rivals, to contrast their battle with the trappings of a man already [...]