While most Americans have not followed the progress of welfare legislation, pollsters are just beginning to ask questions again with Congress set to review the reauthorization of the bill.

The Court is no longer primarily a legal institution but rather a political and cultural power.

It's payoff time for the feminists who have supported President Clinton through L'Affaire Lewinsky.

As the United States prepares to hand over the canal for good, Panamanians are wondering whether they really want us to leave.

"I respect and admire the French, who have been a far greater nation than we shall ever be, that is, if greatness means anything loftier than money and bombs."--Thomas Fleming, Hard Right, March 13, 2003

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With the V-chip, as with the proposed uniform ratings, the government's message is comply "or else."

By holding, in a split decision, that all the so-called "undercounted votes" in Florida must be counted, the court has virtually guaranteed that there can be no conclusion to the Florida election story until well after Dec. 12, the date that Congress has fixed for the selection of an incontestable slate of delegates.

Executing McVeigh isa way to affirm Americans' belief that life is a gift and that those who snuff it out should not continue to enjoy that gift.