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

Climate Research Unit e-mails suggest that its scientists have been suppressing and misstating data.

NCLB's future hangs less on what is happening in the nation's classrooms than on the Washington Consensus.

As NATO summits go, this weekend's meeting of the alliance's members in Chicago may be memorable if only for being the least memorable one in recent history. Of course, quiet summits are not necessarily bad summits. 

The idea that China is practicing a new form of capitalism, and may even be “doing capitalism better than America,” is reaching a fever pitch in policy and business circles.

For Barack Obama’s supporters on the left, to say his policy choices have been a disappointment would be an understatement. Explaining how this came about is Jack Goldsmith’s provocative new book.

Stability in the Indo-Pacific rests on the degree to which the United States continues to forward and base hundreds of thousands of its military forces, along with ships, submarines, and fighter planes. A precipitous U.S. withdrawal would certainly lead to unforeseen effects and a breakdown in relations would almost certainly cause economic disruption and possibly lead to wider global conflict.

Unless strong action is taken, federal health spending will continue to outpace the economy for the indefinite future.