Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.

It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and were found innocent, but in fact in all the cases it was really a fluke ... We find persistent wrongdoing on the part of law enforcement. It's really sheer luck that those convicted of these [capital] crimes were exonerated in the end.

20,000 jobs is really not that many jobs.

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.