Congress could show it has a backbone by standing up to sweeping attempts to assert executive privilege.

Examining the history of the use of the "executive privilege" can help us assess current battles between Congress and President Bush.

An accelerated growth plan for Afghan national forces if very likely to allow coalition forces, including American reinforcements, to begin reducing their footprint without compromising their gains.

President George W. Bush's choice of his counsel, Harriet Miers, to replace Sandra Day O'Connor passes up a rare opportunity to change the direction of the Supreme Court.

To craft a majority will still require securing one more vote. A delicate equipoise of principle and politics, prudence and persuasion, will prove necessary.

Comparing Russia's current Orwellian rhetoric to the cold war is unfair to the Soviets.

Hopefully the bipartisanship that exists now on the 9/11 commission can be extended--not snuffed out by the larger corrosiveness of contemporary politics.

Do not look now, but our planes are falling out of the sky.