Mark Sanford’s behavior is, shall we say, not helpful politically – particularly in the base. The overview is not pretty at all: In a Gallup poll just last month, 92 percent of Americans said it was... [continue]

An outfit called Terror Free Tomorrow claims in an op-ed in today’s Washington Post that the contested Iranian elections likely were not fraudulent, since a pre-election poll it sponsored showed the... [continue]

Do you generally favor or oppose affirmative action programs for racial and ethnic minorities? Let me put that another way: Do you think affirmative action programs that give preferences to blacks and... [continue]

Three weeks after Robert M. Groves sailed through his confirmation hearing to lead the U.S. Census Bureau, a Republican U.S. senator has placed the nomination on hold. As for who and why, it’s Mystery... [continue]

The academic group that put out a much-covered and deservedly much-debated study on so-called "medical bankruptcies" a few years ago has released an update today. In some important ways it improves on... [continue]

Ahead of President Obama’s speech tomorrow in Cairo, views of the United States in the Muslim world can best be described as better, but far from good. And views the other way – Americans’ attitudes... [continue]