The Mountain West —Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah —has become the new swing region in American politics. All signs point to these states, especially Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico, being crucial in the 2012 election. Unfortunately, the rise of this region has been underreported in the media,...

The 2012 congressional redistricting cycle following the 2010 Census is just about over and done with. And it seems likely to make much less difference than many of us expected.

Obama's decision to campaign -- er, conduct official business -- on university campuses last week was not surprising. According to exit polls, there was no surge of young voters in 2008.

Richard Rodriguez, journalist and man of letters, delivered the eighth of AEI's 2002-2003 Bradley Lectures on April 14, 2003.

Richard Rodriguez delivers the eighth of AEI's 2002-2003 Bradley Lectures.

Richard Rodriguez is an editor at the Pacific News Service in San Francisco and is a contributing editor for Harper’s Magazine, U.S. News and World Report, and the Sunday "Opinion" section of the Los Angeles Times. He appears regularly as an essayist on the Newshour with Jim Lehrer, and...

The Supreme Court has just agreed to take on the case of Fisher v. University of Texas. Abigail Fisher, a white woman, argues that she has been a victim of the university's race-conscious admission policies; the university contends that its drive for racial and ethnic diversity is educationally enriching -- a benefit to all students.

Are whites on the verge of becoming a minority of the American population? That's what some analysts of the 2010 census results say.