After decades of failed school reform, our education system needs to be reinvented.

Diplomacy can never supplant the importance of military victory. Obama may want to bring the troops home, but the diplomacy-first strategy hampers peace. As the history of drinking tea with the Taliban shows, talk is not only cheap; it is deadly.

The fascinating departure from the usual pabulum from centrists who insist that they are neither right nor left is nothing less than a desperate abandonment of Obama and the Democratic party in order to preserve the credibility of the ideas driving Obama and the Democratic party.

Woody Allen’s 1973 science fiction comedy Sleeper depicted teacher union leader Albert Shanker as a madman who destroyed the world, but a new biography finds Shanker to have been a complex and visionary figure whose life story offers timely lessons for contemporary debates over education, labor, civil rights, foreign policy,...

Two years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, and on the 212th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, America's resolve is again being tested. From the early days of the republic, America has weathered periods of crisis that have tested its fidelity to the Constitution and the rule of law....

Gallup-poll date imply that the more lobbyists there are working in Washington, the lower will be Congress's approval.

On Tuesday, July 2, the Transition to Governing Project held a conference to discuss the ongoing tension between the legislative and executive branches. The White House and Congress have had several recent clashes over the extent of legislative and executive powers, including the General Accounting Office’s request for documents...

It is remarkable that liberals are lionizing Robert Byrd, even though he represented the alleged structural problems in the Senate and the practice of earmarks, and abandoned his bigoted principles in order to keep power.