The demographics of the United States are changing,butthemajor political parties are struggling to keep up with the changes.

There isan ugly financial story lurking behind the soccer-mom pandering on education.

The great "values" divide has transformed a debate over fuel-economy standards into a cultural showdown and, in the process, demolished any hope for a new federal energy policy.

On Tuesday, DHS secretary Michael Chertoff announced a shift in the way the Urban Area Security Initiative--a grant targeting the "most at risk cities"--is allocated.

The gender gap obscures certain subtleties in the way women vote, and a lot of what you hear about the gender gap is pure spin.

The demagogic nature of the allegations against Norton and Ashcroft should not blind conservatives to the fact that something is wrong with their accustomed states' rights defense of federalism.

The Nurture Assumption, by Judith Rich Harris, offers no policy guidance, but it does offer some useful academic suggestions.

Review of One Nation, Two Cultures: A Searching Examination of American Society in the Aftermath of Our Cultural Revolution, by Gertrude Himmelfarb.