Under current law, the U.S. Department of Defense automatically faces significant spending cuts over the next 10 years—cuts that america's civilian and military leaders have cadidly described as "devastating" and "very high risk."

Obama has managed to do what no Republican president ever could: destroy the War Powers Act. In a riot of irresponsibility and hypocrisy, Republicans are racing to embrace a law they've long reviled just so they can, accurately, charge Obama with irresponsibility and hypocrisy.

Let’s start with the stark reality: Second presidential terms rarely result in major accomplishments. Presidents have few new ideas that have not been posed in their first two years, and already met with success or failure. And second-term presidents face even more obduracy from the opposition, bitter at a second loss of the big prize. 

The worst part about sequestration is that it would take effect in January 2013 — at the start of calendar year 2013, but three months into the fiscal year. Without the ability to plan in advance at the Pentagon, everything would go to the chopping block in the middle of the annual budget cycle. 

Immediate 23% cuts in weapons programs and military construction projects would require not just reductions in expenditures that could be ramped back up late, but wholesale cancellations of vital projects.

The campaign to legalize prescription drug importation from Canada and the European Union has gathered widespread public support and is gaining momentum in both parties, both houses of Congress, and even at the state and local levels. On April 19, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will...

Many analysts are suggesting that the United States is about to enter a new regulatory era. They point to the need for more regulation on a host of issues, ranging from financial services to food supply. What kind of new federal regulations should we expect? How will political considerations affect...

Put aside concerns about low-skilled immigration for a moment. There is wide consensus among those who have studied the issue that skilled immigrants are a net positive for the receiving country.