Oversight of scandals and corruption by government actors must be monitored to ensure functions of government.

Elena Kagan is continuing the process of Supreme Court nominees saying as little as possible in confirmation hearings, despite her past statements that the hearing process has become a sham.

The Harriet Miers nomination has sown seeds of dissension inthe Republican ranks, pitting conservatives against the president and congressional leaders.

Using global-warming theory as the basis for extreme policy mandates could plunge the world into a long-term recession or even a depression.

Until money is allocated on the basis of sound cost-benefit analysis, we will become poorer, but no safer.

Thanks to a coalition of evangelicals, left-wing prison reformers, and human rights activists, Congress is on the verge of tackling America's most ignored crime problem, prison rape.

Whatever punishment inmates may deserve, repeated rape is notsomething that we can condone.

The National Security Council realizes that conspiracieson pre-Iraq war planning are untrue, but they have rewarded those responsible for leaks by changing policy as a result of falsehood.