Given the Postal Service's fiscal crisis, and the need to adjust to market realities, it is time to put the Service on a course toward meaningful structural change that will give it the ability to adjust to demand for its core activity of delivering physical mail.

Afew minor improvements could make voting significantly easier for men and women in the military.

The number of absentee and mail ballots should be reduced, or they must be better tracked.

The rise of absentee voting, especially no-excuse absentee voting, has many scholars debating whether or not such voting increases turnout, devalues the electoral process, and is ultimately good for American democracy. Some argue that the concept of going to the polls on Election Day is a time-honored tradition in this...

In Stealing Elections (Encounter Books, 2004), John Fund takes the reader on a national tour of voter fraud scandals ranging from rural states like Texas and Mississippi to big cities such as Philadelphia and Milwaukee. He explores dark episodes such as the way "vote brokers" stole a...

Last month's special Senate election in Oregon was a breakthrough, but not for the obvious reasons. Not because Democrats took a seat away from the Republicans for the first time since Bill Clinton was elected. Not because it was the first statewide election for federal office conducted entirely by...

Could 1996 be the first year in which the gender gap is a decisive factor?

As the ongoing Senate election contest in Minnesota shows, recounts complicate the election outcome more than they clarify it.