It is an honor to provide my first annual report as executive director of the American Political Science Association. The vital signs for APSA are healthy ones: membership at near record levels and growing; a vigorous agenda; new electronic services for members; and a positive financial status. Before recounting these details, and reviewing active and proposed initiatives on our agenda, however, I think it is useful to reflect about different aspects of the field, and about the place of APSA and of the national office in the larger world of political science.