"We're not going to lose in New Hampshire." So says Mitt Romney's state coordinator Jason McBride. Whether that confidence is well founded may determine the fate of the candidate who has been the on-and-off front-runner in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

We are in the midst of the eleventh presidential nominating cycle since party commissions and state laws made primaries the predominant method of choosing national convention delegates in 1972. Over the years politicians and journalists develop rules of thumb to describe how these things work. In this cycle, some of those rules seem to be changing.

Herman Cain's stance as a non-politician who refuses to obey the rules of the great game of politics is at least momentarily a political asset in a year when opinion about conventional politicians of both parties is near an all-time low.

Does a pension plan that takes more investment risk become better funded? Both the current accounting standards and the proposed revisions answer yes, while economic theory and real-world financial markets say no. Until and unless this central question is answered correctly, both the size of pension liabilities and the steps that could address them will be misunderstood.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) is proposing to regulate bank liquidity. This marks a major innovation in the Basel approach to international banking regulation.

The issues related to the filibuster and other Senate rules have implications for the Senate, other institutions, and the fabric of governance in America.

Norman J. Ornstein testifies on the filibuster today and its broader consequences for the Senate, other institutions, and the fabric of governance in America.

Absentee voting or voting by a mail ballot has expanded greatly over the past thirty years. What have the effects been of this trend?