After a process that seemingly would never end, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Al Franken is the rightful winner of the state's U.S. Senate election last year. Outgoing Sen. Norm Coleman could conceivably have tried his luck in...

A military coup in Honduras this week has brought the Central American nation two presidents. The original leader, Manuel Zelaya, is in detention in Costa Rica after Honduran soldiers arrested him and sent him to the neighboring country. Honduras's...

As you try to influence public policy, you can learn a lot about how the media works based on how Michael Jackson's death was covered today. First, Mark Sanford is the luckiest man in America tonight. This morning, the South Carolina governor's...

Nevada Sen. John Ensign quit as chair of the Republican Policy Committee last week after news broke about an extramartial affair Ensign had with a married campaign staffer. Ensign gave up the fourth-highest GOP post in the Senate and remains in the...

France made a key decision to help turn the tide in the American Revolution and in the U.S. Civil War. France chose to help the colonists against the British in 1777. The British were unable to defeat the combined forces and the Americans won their...