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?

It's highly unusual in a presidential debate for two Republican candidates -- the two leading in current national polls -- to heap praise on a liberal Democratic senator. But in the Fox News debate in Sioux City Thursday night both Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney had very good words to say for Oregon's Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden.

Despite China's emergence as an economic power and all the talk about how America has become a service economy, U.S. manufacturing is alive and well.

As I listened to House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan describe his latest budget plan in a speech at American Enterprise Institute on Tuesday, I couldn't help thinking how different things will be in Britain today when Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne steps out of Number 11 Downing Street with a battered red briefcase holding his budget for the forthcoming year.

Despite China's emergence as an economic power and all the talk about how America has become a service economy, U.S. manufacturing is alive and well. But there is a fly in the ointment -- the U.S. has become dangerously dependent on imports of raw materials needed to keep the economy moving.

The "bloody crossroads" of science and policy will be the subject of an all-day discussion at AEI.

Oregon's new budget bill would prevent Gov. Ted Kulongoski from implementing California's automobile emissions limits in Oregon. The governor should reconsider his threat to veto.