Senator Insists Bush Aides Testify Publicly  —  The Democratic senator leading the inquiry into the dismissal of federal prosecutors insisted Sunday that Karl Rove and other top aides to President Bush must testify publicly and under oath, setting up a confrontation between Congress and the White House …

Voices From Iraq 2007: Ebbing Hope in a Landscape of Loss  —  National Survey of Iraq  —  A new national survey paints a devastating portrait of life in Iraq: widespread violence, torn lives, displaced families, emotional damage, collapsing services, an ever starker sectarian chasm …

Iraq War's Statistics Prove Fleeting  —  The U.S. war in Iraq enters its fifth year today.  That, and 3,197 U.S. military deaths reported by the Pentagon as of 10 a.m. Friday, are among the few numerical certainties in a conflict characterized from the start by confusion and misuse of key data.

Bill Bennett  • Mike Gallagher  • Dennis Prager  • Michael Medved  • Hugh Hewitt  —  "They always blame America first."  That was Jeane Kirkpatrick, describing the "San Francisco Democrats" in 1984.  But it could be said about a lot of Americans, especially highly educated Americans, today.

Guest Post: Rep. Duncan Hunter  —  For this extended primary season, we have an extraordinary opportunity to get acquainted with the men and women who want to run for the Presidency.  I have extended invitations to all campaigns to have their candidates post their messages to CQ readers.

Assignment Zero, Day Six: Help Wanted Section  —  I'm looking for amateur-friendly pros who can work with the people who have joined up with us.  Five days ago we launched AZ.  We now have 450 contributors—each with a profile and a blog—slowly filtering into the site.  What do we do now? they're asking.

Whose Ox Is Gored?  —  The media discover the former vice president's environmental exaggerations and hypocrisy.  —  The media are finally catching up with Al Gore.  Criticism of his anti-global-warming franchise and his personal environmental record has gone beyond ankle-biting bloggers.

News media and politics: an uneasy union  —  Some prominent journalists have mates who work for a presidential candidate.  They approach this potential conflict in different ways.  —  Some of America's most prominent political journalists are, quite literally, wedded to the 2008 presidential race …

We can do more than beg, says new finance chief for Palestinians  —  The new Palestinian Finance Minister gave warning yesterday that the incoming Government was inheriting a "crippling financial crisis" from Hamas.  Salam Fayyad, the internationally respected financier …

Another Inconvenient Truth  —  Behind the feel-good hype of carbon offsets, some of the deals don't deliver  —  The organizers of the Academy Awards declare all their celebrity presenters to be "carbon-neutral."  Vail Resorts Inc. (MTN ) in Colorado boasts that its chairlifts and lodges are "100% powered by wind."

Vehicle warning system trialled  —  Technology correspondent, BBC News website  —  Vehicles may soon be swapping information about road conditions to warn drivers about jams and dangers.  —  A German research project on show at hi-tech trade fair Cebit envisions a peer-to-peer network …

Official Alerted F.B.I. to Rules Abuse 2 Years Ago, Lawyer Says  —  Almost two years before the Federal Bureau of Investigation publicly admitted this month that it had ignored its own rules when demanding telephone and financial records about private citizens, a top official in that program warned …