It doesn't matter why North Korea fired at a South Korean island--what matters is our response. Right now, that response may embolden North Korea to further attacks.

In "It’s Even Worse Than It Looks," congressional scholars Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution and Norman Ornstein of AEI identify two overriding problems that have led Congress — and the United States — to the brink of institutional collapse. Mann and Ornstein call on the media as well as the public at large to focus on the true causes of dysfunction.

It's comfortable living in a cocoon -- associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforce them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide.

Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972 the movie critic Pauline Kael said...

The nation is consumed with economic problems, yet a national security crisis can shift our priorities in a single moment. It's time to find out how the men and women who would be president will perform when that crisis hits.

Four lessons relevant to the Conservatives as they contemplate a possible return to power.

India is more important to America than most Americans realize.

As the president-elect gets ready for new responsibilities, here are four ways for himto become a reliable steward of the economy.

U.S. troops know what is really going on in Iraq; we should listen to them.