A candidate's strengths can also be his weaknesses. Take the case of Rick Santorum.

U.S. policymakers would be making a grave mistake by ignoring today's large external current account deficit and by blithely going for economic growth.

Despite recent well-publicized verbal outbursts by Vice President Biden and Representative Randy Neugebauer, such outbursts are actually typical of Congress throughout its history.

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The United States is home to roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants, and the current immigration system is in desperate need of reform. Last December, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an immigration reform bill focusing solely on...

The constitutionality of the president’s health care plan may be an important part of the hearing for the next Supreme Court nominee, and Republicans could gain by asking politically damaging questions in a high-visibility forum.

On a host of moral issues from birth control to abortion, the time machine is heading back to the 1960s.

The states' rights solution on gay marriage will not work. Without a federal marriage amendment, we will wind up with same-sex marriage in fifty states.

Juan Cole is a major public figure. But political popularity and punditry should not substitute for research, accuracy and experience.