Here is another good news/bad news column about the 112th Congress.

Even more than their parents, such young people may be the best hope for the future of American race relations.

Every federal official has an obligation to act in line with the Constitution as he or she understands it. And that doesn't necessarily mean obeying Supreme Court decisions.

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."

Let’s play "Jeopardy." Round One: Science Literacy. Category: Evolution. For $500: Which is the largest demographic group to reject Darwin’s theory of evolution?”

According to Chris Mooney’s best selling new book, The Republican Brain, a follow up to his 2007 polemic The Republican War on Science, the answer is easy:...

Few social scientists, and even fewer political scientists, have done as much to improve American life as James Q. Wilson, who died last week at age 80.

What do the first hundred days tell us about the future of the 112th Congress? This question will be discussed by a panel of seasoned operatives, including former congressmen Vic Fazio, a Democrat, and Vin Weber, a Republican; Janet Hook of the Wall Street Journal; and Norman J. Ornstein of AEI.

Blacks are still largely lock-step Democratic voters and will probably remain so for a while. But when you listen to the likes of West and Clyburn, never mind silly white liberals like Garofalo, one cannot help but be reassured that the ground is shifting under their feet as inexorably as it shifted under the feet of racists more than a generation ago.