The author discusses recent congressional embarrassments and strange decisions.

The retirement of Rep. Barney Frank from the House will cause mourning among all in the Congress-watcher and Congress-lover fraternity.  Meanwhile, the super committee’s inability to reach any agreement was shrugged off by most observers as the expected outcome, and it was, but I was deeply disappointed nonetheless.

The Obama administration exaggerates the accomplishments of its Russia policy to offset a shortage of foreign-policy achievements in other areas.

The nine men who run China tested the J20 during Gate's visit because they knew they could get away with it: Washington would not want anything to get in the way of the upcoming summit.

Within a few years of Stalin's rise to power, Nikolai Vavilov's work fell victim to the general politicization of science in the Soviet Union.

We need an emergency plan in place for U.S. elections in case there is a serious disruption on election day caused by a natural disaster or a terrorist attack.

John Zogby's The Way We'll Be is not a precise national roadmap, but it does offer tantalizing clues about where we are headed.

Press release/summary for Eternal Iran: Continuity and Chaos.