The department's lack of transparency and disclosure demonstrates how an issue central to the lives and property of Americans is once again moving away from security concerns to political ones.

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.

It’s time for the Pentagon and the American defense industry to develop a new way of doing business. They must look to Israel.

One of the biggest challenges will be to persuade Congress to support a homeland security funding system that is based on risk rather than politics.

From the beginning,Congress got the disaster system it wanted and fought for. It is a system in the image of Washington politics: inept.

Hezbollah is using the Western Hemisphere as a staging ground, fundraising center, and operational base to wage asymmetric warfare against the United States. Venezuela's Hugo Chávez and other anti-American governments in the region have facilitated this expansion by rolling out the welcome mats for Hezbollah and Iran.

By allowing their well-reasoned and often well-founded critiques of government action to metastasize into a categorical rejection of all prospective government action, while continuing to deny the basic political economy of the welfare state, conservatives increasingly find themselves in an ideological and practical straightjacket.

What do gym memberships, the Fourteen Mile Bridge in Mobile, Alabama, and a promotional campaign for a child pornography tip-line have in common?