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The United States has been engaged in the war in Iraq for more than thirty months now, but the nature of the war and the challenges it poses to coalition forces have not been consistent...

Neither the framers nor subsequent political leaders had built in to the constitutional framework any plans to reconstitute Congress in the event of a catastrophe like 9/11. I called for Congressional leaders to at least create a commission to study the problem and potential solutions.

Atied Senate, where any one vote can make all the difference in the world, and where one vacancy, even for a short time, can turn the body upside down, is an unstable institution.

The line of presidential succession has been neglected. Partisanship, terrorism, and other dangers require that we reform it.

What could be more interesting to observe and analyze than a tied Senate, a nearly even House, and a president entering with just 271 electoral votes under his belt?

Today's conservatives should follow the lead of some late nineteenth century Republican reformers who earned their party's scorn by standing up for their ideas.

Who was Lincoln, why did he do what he did, and why should we remember him today?

President Clinton's Inaugural Address this month is the 53rd in the series that began in 1789. All are worth a read--not just the highlights, such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and FDR. They will give you a feeling of being there, not as an omniscient historian of 1997 looking back...