Just three weeks after Columbia's university senate voted in favor of engaging with ROTC, Columbia has announced it will reinstate its Navy ROTC program. Meanwhile, ROTC looks set to return to both Stanford and Yale.

The federal tax credit for research and experimentation expired at the end of 2005. Congress faces a number of questions as it considers whether to reinstate and extend this credit. For example, has the credit been an effective incentive? Should it be redesigned for greater efficiency? What can the state...

President Obama's proposal to reinstate taxes for the Superfund, the federal program that finances the cleanup of toxic sites but has almost nothing to do with the oil spill, emphasizes that the more the Obama administration attends to not letting a crisis go to waste, the worse the crisis gets.

Last week, the Senate held hearings to examine why energy prices have risen so sharply...

Afghanistan's election watchdog disqualified 19 winning candidates for alleged fraud, adding to a string of controversies that have undermined the legitimacy of the parliamentary elections and have delayed the vote results for two months.

In a close election, everything matters, including two wild-card issues that have suddenly emerged at the end of this presidential campaign: flu vaccines and reinstating the draft.

Why did a mission that began so gloriously last December end in such ignominious retreat? And what lessons does it teach about sending American forces abroad in the post-cold-war world?

Individual nations must be counseled to cease their threats against Honduras and to stop meddling in its internal affairs.