Public opinion results onwhat isappropriate and when thingshave been remarkably stable during the pasttwenty years.

Americans are usually more concerned with what goes on at home than what"s happening beyond their country"s borders, but this does not make us isolationists.

Crime was the top problem in recent poll, but the level of anxiety about crime is unusually low.

This is a status quo election with a number of interesting individual contests, a few fascinating subplots and some meaningful implications for the next two years.

Does Buchanan really believe he can whip such Establishment favorites as George W. Bush and Elizabeth H. Dole?

In early February 1999, 36 percent of Americans told Gallup interviewers that they had a gun at home, down from 47 percent a decade ago.

Even though large majorities of Americans favor a tax cut, most of them don't believe politicians in Washington will cut their taxes.

We Americans love our system of government and revere the Framers who gave it to us, but for a long time, the reverence has come with a few caveats.