Pace's statement that homosexuality is "immoral" won't change the status quo, but the outcry is a clear sign that gays will eventually be allowed to serve
The U.S. attorney controversy continues to grow, as an e-mail trail shows the White House paying close attention to the firing of New Mexico's state prosecutor
A new study reveals that one-third of returning veterans have a diagnosed mental illness, and young soldiers are particularly vulnerable
After a third resignation in the wake of the Walter Reed scandal, the new defense secretary is making one major break with the past: he holds people accountable
The emotions of two teenage suspects in a gruesome murder are apparently chronicled on their MySpace pages
Conservative voters are feeling glum about the Republican Presidential front-runners. What they really should be lamenting is the collapse of their pet issue: national security
Al Sharpton has now done a Sister Souljah on himself, relieving Obama of the necessity of saying that he finds Sharpton a race-hustling phony.
If a social conservative from a southern state like Louisiana Senator David Vitter can get behind the former mayor of New York, it takes some of the punch out of the anti-Giuliani analysis that he will be found unacceptable to Republican primary voters.
No one can see the future. But there's no harm in some enlightened guessing. TIME presents a thinking person's guide to the year to come