Feeling a threat from proposed legislation, both sides are mobilizing supporters like they haven't in years.

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It was just one line in a campaign manifesto, and it hardly seemed the most significant or contentious.

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The so-called card-check provision — which senators decided to scrap to help secure a filibuster-proof 60 votes — would have required employers to recognize a union as soon as a majority of workers signed cards saying they wanted a union.

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WASHINGTON — President Obama is well known for bold proposals that have raised expectations, but his administration has shown a tendency for compromise and caution, and even a willingness to capitulate on some early initiatives.

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No state has done as much as California to sponsor, legitimize and reward environmental virtue.

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Congress should approve the Clean Water Restoration Act so as to reaffirm the broad federal protections that it intended when it passed the law in 1972.

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The legislation would create a public database of complaints about products and empower state prosecutors to take action to protect consumers.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi must find a way to make the Matthew Shepard Act the law.

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Congress still has time to stop some of the worst offenses of vote suppression by passing two bills intended to prevent cynical dirty tricks.

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President Bush is planning to veto a law that would require intelligence services to abide by the same rules on torture as the military. We urge him not to veto this bill.

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President Bush is planning to veto a law that would require intelligence services to abide by the same rules on torture as the military. We urge him not to veto this bill.

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Ultimately, it is the consumer who will pay the greatest price if the federal government continues to prevent the local food movement from expanding.

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Proposals to reduce the scourge of guns warrant open discussion and debate during the remaining months of the presidential campaign.

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Senator Claire McCaskill, a Democrat, said she wanted to clear up any doubt over Senator John McCain's constitutional qualifications.

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John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone. So is he still a "natural-born citizen" and therefore eligible to be president?

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N.B.A. Commissioner David Stern insisted that Congress need not legislate drug testing in the major professional sports leagues.

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If a proposed bankruptcy provision becomes law, as it should, lenders will have a powerful incentive to modify troubled loans voluntarily.

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Any decent person who looks at John McCain's record sees that while he has faltered at times, he has also battled concentrated power more doggedly than any other legislator.

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Senator Barack Obama was not ducking his responsibility in the Illinois Senate when he voted "present" on many issues.

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It is common in this country for under-age girls engaged in prostitution to be arrested, even though it is a serious crime for an adult to have sex with a minor.

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President Bush proposed legislation to increase drug premiums for higher-income Medicare beneficiaries, which he said would generate $3.2 billion over five years.

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The Food and Drug Administration's proposed rules would allow drug and device makers to provide doctors with medical journal articles about product uses that have not been approved by the F.D.A.

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The Bush administration will have to press a lot harder to make sure that the new laws approved by Iraq's Parliament are translated into action.

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The General Mining Law of 1872, a relic of the boisterous era of westward expansion, is now an environmental disaster and should be reformed.

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The vote, a major victory for the White House, would also give legal protection to phone companies that cooperated in a program of warrantless eavesdropping.

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