The recent plan to give D.C. full voting representation in the House of Representatives is much-needed, ingenious and blatantly unconstitutional.

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

If there is any nation that can resist the siren song of retreat and decline, it is this one. A country that continues to believe that life will be better after a nuclear attack is a country that believes in its own future.

We got mixed signals from a turbulent political week. Barack Obama seems to be enjoying an uptick in polls, moving toward 50 percent approval. But his weakness was apparent in his State of the Union address: issues. 

Central to Barack Obama's world view is rejecting the idea of "American exceptionalism," a tradition that has been embraced as the defining feature of democracy in the United States.

Are the origins of the United States religious and political, or did economic motives drive the early colonists?

In the past month, President George W. Bush has backed regime change in Liberia, first demanding that its warlord "president" step down, then dispatching a Pentagon assessment team to pave the way for a more robust military deployment. Pressure is building for the Bush administration to rescue Liberia--our lost West...

In recent decades, our education expectations have skyrocketed, with policymakers today insisting that all students need to master skills once thought the province of the elite. We need schools far more capable than the one-size-fits-all bureaucracies of an earlier era.