The members of the freshman class of this new Congress may have some things to learn from Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), the original conservative insurgent.

Although the past thirty years of originalist scholarship have produced remarkable gains in certain areas of law, much of the Constitution remains to be recovered.

In the Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents, From Wilson to Obama, Steven Hayward revives the original standards of the Founding for judging our presidents and discusses how future presidents should begin taking seriously their oath of office to “preserve, protect, and defend” the Constitution.

What’s important now is not to let what happened to Fishtown be ignored. For whatever reasons, the culture that used to characterize working-class America — indeed, that made working-class America the spine of America’s civic culture — has come apart. Recognizing that this has happened is the indispensable first step in figuring out what to do next.

It appears that our interests were ill-served by the abandonment of Iraq by Barack Obama.

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Every serious study of U.S. infrastructure has reached the same conclusion: More investment is needed -- and fast. But with Sen. Jeff Bingaman's amendment to the highway reauthorization bill, the Senate effectively penalizes states for using innovative infrastructure financing.

In one of a series of events and conversations about the meaning of the American calendar, Amy A. Kass (Hudson Institute) and Leon R. Kass (AEI) seek to restore America's fading national memory with a celebration of the holiday by its original and proper name: Washington's Birthday.