Op-Ed

Congressional leaders have presented the American people with a false choice when it comes to healthcare reform.

Legendary House Speaker Sam Rayburn ushered in the 1933 Truth in Securities Act in the grim depths of the Great Depression.

As the budget battle continues to be waged and the creative solutions for job creation debated, all involved should support a substantive investment in community colleges and its students.

President Obama is hardly alone in mischaracterizing the January 21 ruling in Citizens United.

One thing should now be clear to President Barack Obama and his allies: Tehran will not unclench its fist when it comes to its nuclear program, and the Iranian people will not yield in their desire for regime change.

The Obama administration’s decision to try suspected Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in federal court, rather than by military commission, was the right decision.

Japan, India and China have set their sights on the moon. Why are we pulling back America's dominance in human space flight?

Midterm elections that are dominated by one party controlling the executive branch and both houses of Congress offer particular pitfalls for the party in power. In part, this is because voter anger becomes directed at the party controlling all of the levers of power, and voters are comfortable putting a check on the president and dividing government. In fact, since 1968, voters have divided government for 30 of the 42 years, nearly three-quarters of the time. A review of one-party-dominated midterms offers three models of electoral direction.

In a stunning display of judicial activism that overturned federal and state campaign laws dating back to the early 19th century, the narrowest Supreme Court majority held that corporations have a constitutional right to use their treasury funds to make so-called “independent expenditures” supporting or opposing candidates for public office.

Recent announcements on the war in Afghanistan — from U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s call for Taliban disarmament and reintegration, to the U.S. State Department’s pledge to increase political, diplomatic and economic engagement, to the recent London conference of international leaders — bode well for a country riddled with violence and poverty. These are signs that the U.S. and its allies are recognizing that the past approach is insufficient in stabilizing Afghanistan. The precedent of pursuing solely military solutions in a country where insecurity runs rampant across political, economic and social spectrums is being rethought and revamped. This is a good thing.