Cutting defense will not help the country's fiscal problems.

While rioters ravage the streets of London for a fourth day, opportunistic British political pundits have already begun blaming the Tory-led coalition government.

The attorney general's interpretation of the Voting Rights Act and proposed guidelines to ensure that certain states obtain federal approval for all proposed changes in voting procedure including "redrawing districting maps" will negatively affect the landscape of American politics for decades to come.

Few people thought that controversy would arise in the new administration over the Constitution's census clause.

Congress should let the VRA's emergency provisions expire: They're not needed, they have lost their logic, and they create mischief.

The inability to reach consensus has been a central obstacle to a Doha agreement in the World Trade Organization, so it is worthwhile to consider alternative paths to advance without complete agreement from all 153 members of the WTO.

The immediate issue is the reauthorization of the "emergency" provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Repeatedly extended, they are now due to die on Aug. 6, 2007.

Racially gerrymandered districts result in a segregated--and uncompetitive--political map with no incentives to build biracial coalitions.