Even with few questions on the nation’s fiscal position and foreign policy, most of the Republican candidates performed pretty well. If that’s the way the Republican primary voters and caucusgoers see things, the result may be to tighten the race for the nomination.

As difficult asGeorge W.Bush's position is today, Ronald Reagan's was worse.

I can't remember a more stunning rebuke of a president by a congressional leader than Speaker John Boehner's refusal to agree to Barack Obama's demand that he summon a joint session of Congress to hear the president's latest speech on the economy. It illustrates several of the weaknesses of this presidency.

Political reporters always like to anoint one candidate as the front-runner. But there hasn't been a real front-runner in the Republican race so far.

There was no Reagan "mystique"--study him closely and you see that he worked very hard at becoming a good politician, and part of that was concealing just how hard he worked at it.

Unless the United States is prepared to reverse the trend, we must face the fact that China will rule the skies over the Pacific--just as it is also poised to rule its waves at sea.

Steven F. Hayward, author of "The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counter-Revolution, 1980-1989," answers questions on the policies and life of Ronald Reagan.

A top Republican and Democratic economist explain why Obama's economic policies are failing, and offer a commonsense blueprint for reigniting long-term growth and prosperity for all Americans.