As the ongoing Senate election contest in Minnesota shows, recounts complicate the election outcome more than they clarify it.

Abipartisan panel should be appointed to oversee the recount in the Minnesota Senate race between Al Franken and Norm Coleman.

The United Nations World Summit—the largest gathering of heads of state in history—will convene this month to review and debate Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s plan of reform for Turtle Bay. What are the prospects and challenges for effective UN reform? Is the September summit likely to produce meaningful changes...

Republican Bob Turner's win in the New York 9th district special election is a big reversal from the 2008 general election. Voters just issued what amounts to an emphatic thumbs down on the policies of the Obama Democrats. This result is a rebuke to Barack Obama, but it is a rebuke as well—a stinging one, perhaps more stinging—to Senator Charles Schumer.

The United Nations General Assembly is in the midst of its 62nd session, and the influence of the Non-Aligned Movement, the Organization of Islamic Conference, and the G77 states (an intergovernmental economic organization of 130 developing countries within the UN) continues to feature prominently in the international political arena. In...

The Constitution gives the House and Senate the right to judge their own election results and qualifications of their members.

Both Republicans and Democrats have chosen cities for their conventions in regions that they hope will break them out of the current stable red-and-blue map.

The actions of Governor Rod Blagojevich have created an interesting series of challenges for the Illinois Legislature and for Congress.