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Commentator Mickey Edwards says the Republicans should be putting all their energy into ensuring that the GOP maintains control of Congress. He says while a division of power between the White House and Capitol Hill would seem to lead to gridlock, the fact is that in the last two years it has made for compromise and progress.

What do Wikipedia and Craigslist have in common with the Tea Party movement? They succeed by being decentralized, says Rod Beckstrom, co-author of the management book The Starfish and the Spider.

Gen. Zhang Yang, a former head of the powerful Central Military Commission's political work department, hanged himself at his home in Beijing last week, state media said.

Our panel of editorial page editors returns to discuss the news of the past month, including: controversy over re-opening Maine's economy; how Governor…

Former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was arrested and then later released in connection with an investigation into the Scottish National Party's finances.

Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang's Forward Party is preparing to put up its first candidates in 2024.

Commentator Andrea Bernstein [BERN-stine] notes that one of the ways the just-concluded GOP convention differed from its 1992 predecessor was its position on homosexuality. In 1992, she says, one speaker after another took pot-shots at gays and lesbians; this time around, the GOP's stand on gays in the military, same-sex marriage and other issues were kept in the platform and off the stage.

Tea Party Republicans are trying to make a comeback and have found one candidate to get behind for the Senate in 2016 — Florida's Ron DeSantis, a former JAG Corps lawyer and Yale baseball captain.

Official election results confirm that German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives have won — but they finished short of an absolute majority. The likeliest outcome is a Merkel-led coalition with the Social Democrats.

China's ruling party kicks off a national congress on Sunday in which Xi Jinping is expected to secure a third term as party boss and chief of the military.