The world is becoming increasingly scary at the very time that the military will be facing 20% reductions. With each passing day, the world closes in; with each passing day, our ability to manage that world degrades.

Unless Congress acts, this summer the Pentagon will begin making across-the-board cuts in defense programs — cuts that will eventually be so deep that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has said they will end the United States’s status as a global superpower. Yet there seems to be...

With Congress having sent a bill to the president, a lot of people inside and outside Washington will breathe a huge sigh of relief that the trauma is over. Now get ready for the next set of "my way or the highway" showdowns.

Many commentators have noted that if the Super Committee fails, the sky will not fall, at least not immediately. The sequesters that would be triggered do not take effect until 2013, after all. Here is the starker reality.

This was a debate full of surprises, at least for me. The first: CNN’s John King showed some forebearance in not leading off with a question to Rick Santorum on his statements on contraception and other cultural issues.

Now that the Great Debt Ceiling Deal has become the law of the land, it's time to consider what just happened to America, and in particular to America's armed forces. On the one hand, it's complicated. On the other hand, it's ugly.

The number of appropriators in the GOP leadership is disproportionate to the rest of the Republican caucus and jeopardizes the Party's hopes of retaking Congress by convincing voters that it can restore fiscal discipline.

The new rules package, combined with other procedural changes, is an interesting mix of commendable components and positive motives with more pernicious elements that go in a very different direction.