Health care reform in America stands unrivaled as the most effective prism through which to understand the emergence of a new political landscape in 2009.

The stakes are as high as they can be. Discussion about health care -- even if opaque from a policy perspective -- incites a number...

"We're not having a strategy of hope," declared Major General J. Scott Gration at an intimate roundtable discussion with bloggers about Sudan at the State Department Friday morning. Gration, President Barack Obama's special envoy to Sudan, spoke with calm optimism about the role of the United States in the fate...