Republicans must attract more moderates and non-Southerners to the party, or face another long period in the minority.

Much has been written over the years on the geopolitical, security, legal, institutional, economic, and policy requisites for success in a hypothetical Korean reunification. One issue that has attracted much less attention is the role that human resources may play in any prospective reintegration of the still-divided Korean nation.

Has one of our two major parties ever had a weaker field of presidential candidates in a year when its prospects for victory seemed so great? My answer, after hemming and hawing a bit, was yes: the Democratic party in 1932. 

The assumption that conservatives are racist is badly flawed, and relies on a long outdated notion of intolerance as part of the conservative ideology.

Despite the high-profile example of Steven Slater and his aggravating passenger, there is little evidence of an epidemic of rudeness, as Americans care about common courtesy and worry properly about its erosion.

Obama is not the first president whose personal popularity bolstered his campaign, but as seen by the decline of Carter, personality alone cannot hold together a coalition.

It is easy to predict that the Con-Con-Con effort will make little progress for an elusively simple reason: the basic condition that made the compromises of the 1787 convention possible do not exist today.

The response to Barack Obama since his victory in November is similar to the response to John F. Kennedy after his narrower victory in 1960.