Rather than have the government stretch the meaning of statutes and evidence, Congress and the president should enact a statute that straightforwardly makes it illegal to publish or circulate materials that support, praise, or advocate terrorism as long as we are still formally at war with al Qaeda and its allies.

Ask Americans what they think the First Amendment protects, and they will tell you “freedom of speech.”  But few will think of the amendment’s third protection: “freedom of assembly.” In his provocative new book, “Liberty’s Refuge, The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly,” Washington University School of Law professor John Inazu implores Americans to keep in mind the importance of this protection.

Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-Va.) has long been on almost everyone's short list for the Republican vice presidential nomination. But now McDonnell's national security credentials have come into question, thanks to his mishandling of a bill passed by the Virginia General Assembly.

It is no surprise that a constitutional amendment to balance the budget would reemerge now -- there's the symbolism of standing for fiscal rectitude and wrapping that position in the cloak of the Constitution.

Congressional leaders are considering a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. There are three reasons to suspect that judicial enforcement of a federal balanced-budget amendment would be more problematic than at the state level.

If ever we need evidence of ideology run rampant, the House vote to eliminate the annual American Community Survey and the Economic Census to provide basic information on the state of businesses and industries in the country and data used for generating quarterly gross domestic product estimates is exhibit A.

AEI's Christina Hoff Sommers is concerned by attempts to transform academic science with feminist dogma, which would reduce American competitiveness.