The number of schools ranked highly in guides such as Barron's Profiles of American Colleges is increasing, without any evidence that these schools' instructional quality is also increasing. Applicants and their families should be wary of letting these rankings serve as the main criteria in their college decisions.

The Paycheck Fairness Act looks like common sense, but instead of helping women it will hurt all workers. The legislation, built on 30 years of spurious advocacy research, will impose unnecessary and onerous requirements on employers.

Christopher Dodd has had an easy career as Connecticut's senator, but his political troubles now entail danger for the Democrats.

Former senator Ted Stevens was a good senator for Alaskans, and he did service to the nation.

I hope Timothy Geithner's plan works, and I fear that it will not.

A significant bloc of voters seems to have soured on the Democrats since Barack Obama took office and the 111th Congress went to work.

Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently said if sequestration stands, "we wouldn't be the global power that we know ourselves to be today." He's right.

Reducing the value of the charitable deduction is a threat to voluntary associations.