President Obama's decision not to deploy antiballistic missile defense assets in Poland and the Czech Republic is unambiguously wrong.

The sooner Congress takes up reforming the presidential funding system, the better.

The true institutionalists, the ones who care about the long-term future of Congress, are those who understand and support the need for real ethics reform.

Conservatives must build on our environmental successes, practicing common-sense environmentalism.

Saddam Hussein is down to his last card: dividing America and Britain in the hope that the former will be unwilling to act alone to remove him from office.

Extraordinary advances of democracy have occurred in recent months: elections in Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine and Palestine; local elections in Saudi Arabia; Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon; the opening up of the presidential election in Egypt; and upheavals against entrenched authoritarians in Kyrgyzstan. This welcome trend was partly triggered by President Bush's Middle East policy and accelerated by his second inaugural address, which elevated the progress of freedom in the world to the defining objective of U.S. foreign policy.

Choosing war, especially preemptive war, is a difficult decision for democracies, but ithelp the United States and its allies avoid a much more dangerous conflict with a nuclear-armed Iraq.

Why should regulation be extended to most of the major players in the financial system when it has been a consistent failure for banks?