The battle over minority set-asides in state contracting is heating up in Florida, where Governor Jeb Bush is charting a controversial course beyond affirmative action.

The tobacco and gun lawsuits stand the traditional checks-and-balances system on its ear and marginalize Congress.

Most newly elected mayors celebrate their victory with the pomp and circumstance of an inaugural ceremony. Not Bernard Kincaid.

I'm not a lawyer, so I've never aspired to being a judge. But I sometimes indulge in fantasies about the sort of judge I would be, if given the chance. I'd be a wonderful judge--patient, fair-minded, even-tempered, witty, self-deprecating--but above all, restrained.

The novelty of a mouse-to-mouse public policy debate from the convenience of a family-room PC is an intriguing prospect.