Where if anywhere are we getting adult leadership on major public policy issues this year? The answer is where the Founding Fathers seem to have least expected it, from the House of Representatives, and specifically from its Republican leaders.

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

Doing a better job of providing accessible, high-quality training, and helping students identify those programs, may not garner the headlines of a new research lab or football stadium, but it's a whole lot more likely to make a difference for workers and communities across the land.

The annual Social Security Trustees Report, released on Monday, confirms that the program is significantly underfunded. After decades of delay, Congress and the next president will need to take steps to restore Social Security's finances and improve Americans' retirement income security. Although it might seem counterintuitive, one positive step toward...

Bills moving through Congress indicate the Democrats' propensity to tax certain industries more than others for political reasons.

A book review of Roy Rempel's Dreamland: How Canada's Pretend Foreign Policy Has Undermined Sovereignty.

UN meeting in Rambouillet represents a massive failure of Western political leadership, and the start of a long and potentially deadly deployment of NATO "peacekeepers."