President Obama's upcoming trip to Latin America could be a first step toward salvaging soured relations with key friends.

Is it panic time at Obama headquarters in Chicago? You might get that impression from watching events -- and the polls -- over the past few weeks.

President Obama's upcoming trip to Latin America could be a first step toward salvaging soured relations with key friends.

Congress should apply to climate change the market-based solution that it successfully applied to acid rain nearly twenty years ago.

Arlen Specter has left the Republican Party in name as he had already left it in spirit over the stimulus vote.

Arlen Specter's crossover says interesting things about Specter himself and about the state of the Republican Party.

It’s going to be bait and switch for as far as the eye can see. That’s how it looks now that the smoke has cleared after the recent “Mommy War” skirmish over Democratic operative Hilary Rosen’s comment that mother of five Ann Romney had “never worked a day in her life.”

For most of 2012, President Obama has been running in the Democratic primary. I know that seems odd, given that he’s essentially running unopposed. But that's not what I'm talking about.