To what extent is race the "third rail" of American politics?

Renewal of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is a careless, politically expedient promise unlikely to be kept.

The AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project represents a long-term effort to develop a bipartisan policy agenda for improving the administration of U.S. elections.

A statute to ensure the voting rights of minorities in 1965 has become a gerrymandering tool to further the interests of political parties and incumbent politicians.

Safe minority constituencies, in marginalizing black representatives, have become a brake on further racial progress.

Five years after winning the majority, House Republicans still have no idea how to wield power.

Central to the globalization debate is the issue of the extent to which the United States should compel the application of U.S. laws and regulatory standards to activities in other countries.