The vote against Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council shows India can use its foreign policy to promote democracy in Asia.

In the case of Sen. Drubin's comparison of Guantanamo Bayto the murderers of three evil despotic regimes, expressing outrage is not enough. Sen. Durbin must be censured now.

It is high time for Congress to enact a new ethics rule flatly prohibiting members of Congress and their staffs from soliciting in any way, in an attempt to reduce the corrosiveness that fundraising has created in the American polity.

How do Americans feel about censuring President Bush, the war in Iraq, war protests, drafts, foreign investment, the South Dakota abortion ban, March Madness, and friendly politicians?

While the tragic attack on Gabby Giffords may or may not have been caused by over-the-top rhetoric, there is still an undeniable problem with the poisonous discourse in today's politics.

The 105th Congressis bracketed by two significant bookends.

As the United Nations kicked off its annual six-week meeting of the commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Cuban-American leaders and European representatives convened in Washington yesterday to discuss the international community's response to Fidel Castro's human-rights abuses, and to debate what some are labeling the European Union's recent appeasement of the Cuban dictator.