Gingrich and Clinton are shrewd, calculating figures. They know how to survive. But now voters are getting wise to them.

Central to the genius of the Constitution's design are the mechanisms to change it, and while the Amendment process is often arduous, the American people can do a better job of tinkering with the Constitution than Supreme Court justices.

When does private behavior appropriately become a public issue?

The recent Citizens United ruling opens up a brave new world of huge and overweaning big-money influence on elections, as organizations cloaked in anonymity can spend tens of millions on negative ads.

To many Americans, the Lewinsky situation is a private matter, not a public one.

The Spitzer scandal has brought up a number of demographic surprises about prostitution.

There was anegative category of foreign response to Obama's inauguration that is worth noting.

A remembrance of the late Jesse Helms, the legendary and controversial chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.