We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.

Freshman in Congress need to make health care a two-way truce. There is actually a huge acreage of common ground in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that can and should be the basis for debate and ultimately for compromise.

Columbia will participate in a student vote to decide whether ROTC should return to campus, and there are good reasons to be optimistic.

Up on Capitol Hill, there appears to be progress--bipartisan progress, even--toward changing our immigration laws to reflect current and emerging realities.

By wide margins, Americans want our elected officials to work together. But Democrats and independents want compromise while Republicans want their politicians to stick to principle.

Detroit lost 25% of its population in a single decade--a decline second only to hurricane-devastated New Orleans.

If voters judge President Obama by job creation, as Democrats said George W. Bush should be judged in 2004, he will be revealed to be among the worst presidents in history.

This month, Thursdays have been very bad days for the Obama administration's attempt to pass health care bills concocted by House and Senate committee chairmen.