House Republicans seem to be wavering on an earmark ban, but voters have a right to know before Election Day whether House Republican leaders will ban earmarks if they win the majority.

Rather than setting artificial deadlines, President Obama must start projecting resolve to win the war in Afghanistan, and he must tell Americans the stakes, the consequences of failure, and why he will not accept defeat.

With congressional guidance on integrating employee seniority lists, airlines face one less roadblock to their desired mergers.

The Bush administrationis working hard to ensure presidential appointments go smoothly, but there is another piece to this--confirmation by the Senate.

Campaign finance reform is alive and kicking.

The idea of a Department of Homeland Security is a compelling one, but that does not answer the question of whether the massive relocation of agencies is the best one.

Because women make up more than half of the electorate and because they have been voting at higher rates than men since 1980, press commentary has focused on women.

Terrorist attacks over the last decades follow a power-law distribution, which anticipates future terrorist events with ever broader effects.