Senator John McCain scored some points on Thursday by acknowledging the many failures of the Bush presidency and pledging to not repeat them.

That the U.S. is so reliant on private guards to plug the holes in the military underscores how badly this administration has mismanaged the occupation of Iraq.

President Bush should veto a $307 billion farm bill that rewards rich farmers while doing nothing to help the world’s hungry.

A new study suggests that talented young teachers can have a lasting effect on student performance even if they do not make a career of teaching.

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Is Barack Obama naïve enough to think that an extremist ideological organization like Hezbollah can be mollified with a less corrupt patronage system and some electoral reform?

Robert Rauschenberg’s openness and generosity of vision was contagious and inspired others in their work to see the whole world as a work of art.

Pundits discuss whether John McCain has made his views clear on relations with Hamas.

The songwriter shares audio and lyrics from a song that ponders the question: If a man is a rose, what kind of man is he?

Fast-growing communities in Virginia, Colorado, Nevada and Oregon might hold the key to the general election.

Males of various species tailor their sperm count according to real or perceived competition.

School design doesn’t need to be numbingly institutional — it can be inspiring and, yes, green.

Outwitting a lie detector, with the help of the city of Detroit.

The polluted atmosphere of immigration politics has produced toxic byproducts so extreme that they make a recent rebate glitch seem like a mere annoyance.

However this election turns out, the United States will have a president who supports mandatory cuts in greenhouse gases.

Requiring voters to prove their citizenship is not based on any evidence of voter fraud, but rather on Republicans’ electoral calculations.

Expanding E-Verify and forcing Social Security to take on the enormous burden of immigration enforcement would have frightening implications for millions of people.

Congress should realign its tax and subsidy programs to encourage the biofuels that will not compete for the world’s food supply.

The wreckage in Dujiangyan, China, stands as a tragic monument to a culture that turned its back on its remarkable and glittering history.

A humanitarian invasion of Myanmar is militarily doable, but we would have to accept significant responsibility for the aftermath.

To reduce the risk of the kind of divisions that afflicted Democrats during my campaigns, I have a proposal that I hope Senators Clinton and Obama and our party will consider.

Of all the well-meaning desires projected on Barack Obama, the hope that he would decisively improve relations with the world’s Muslims is the least realistic.

When a woman does ascend through the glass ceiling into the White House, it will be, in part, because of the race of 2008, when Hillary Clinton got down with the boys.