The Constitution was crafted to demand compromise. Does this make the legislative process frustrating? Absolutely. But by design, accommodation of others' concerns is a necessary element of successful legislation, as long as the proposed compromise is actually a compromise...

We all stand on the shoulders of giants. And few giants loom larger in the study of "executive prerogatives" than Arthur Schlesinger Jr., that great American...

After the summary defenestration of Donald Rumsfeld and the slow martyrdom of Scooter Libby, the New York Times' call yesterday for the President to fire his...

Oversight is the rallying cry of the new Democrat Class of '06. But there's a danger that the policy area most obviously in need of real accountability- our domestic national security agenda - will get short shrift in the rush to address the Iraq debacle.