Here is another good news/bad news column about the 112th Congress.

The press has pilloried Boehner for walking away from debt negotiations, but it may prove to be one of the greatest moments of his speakership--and a turning point in the "Cold War" over our national debt.

Inspired by President Obama’s cheap election-year politicking, Congress has launched into a frenzied, bipartisan panderfest over the Stafford loan program. Late last week, an emotional House speaker John Boehner led House Republicans to vote for an Obama-proposed giveaway he’d denounced just a few days previously.For those who don’t...

John Boehner is caught between a rock and a hard place in order to get the House of Representatives to vote on his debt plan.

Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) addresses past failures of Democrats and Republicans alike and how to reform the House.

Join us at AEI for a conversation that will consider what the 2012 elections hold for education against the backdrop of the new book "Carrots, Sticks, and the Bully Pulpit: Lessons from a Half-Century of Federal Efforts to Improve America's Schools," edited by AEI's Frederick M. Hess and Andrew P. Kelly.

Boehner will get another swing at the ball in the debt-limit fight. He will enter those negotiations with his base, and his caucus, watching him with wary eyes. They know that he has much greater leverage in this fight — and will be expecting much bigger results.

Obama's shifting views on school vouchers won't score points with anyone other than the NEA and AFT. His strategy aims to woo the teachers unions as 2012 approaches.