With the recent publication of its final rule, the federal government's Financial Stability Oversight Council is now in position to designate certain nonbank firms as "systemically important financial institutions" (SIFIs). There is probably no aspect of the Dodd-Frank Act that will have more damaging effects on competition in the U.S. financial system.

En los últimos años, Hezbollah y sus mecenas en Irán expandieron enormemente sus operaciones en América Latina en desmedro de la seguridad interamericana y de los intereses estratégicos de Estados Unidos. Hoy, Hezbollah utiliza el hemisferio occidental como base de operaciones y de recaudación de fondos para librar una mguerra asimétrica contra Estados Unidos.

Views about whether Obama's health care law will make things better or worse for individuals and families have changed dramatically.

The North Korean challenge is complex, but by now all too familiar. Nearly two decades of negotiations have failed to resolve the nuclear problem, and North Korea has been carrying out aggression against the South for much longer than that. It is time for the allies to try something new.

Base broadening must be approached with caution because some base-broadening measures make the tax system less neutral, impeding economic efficiency. Also, income tax base broadening cannot eliminate, and may even reinforce, the income tax's central flaw--its penalty on saving.

President Bush speaks about the way forward in Afghanistan and the War on Terror.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali's memoir Infidel tells the story of her emancipation.

Walter's great contribution is in seeing the Constitution whole--as much more than a set of legal doctrines or parade of court decisions--and in showing that it can illuminate the most vexing contemporary problems and controversies. There is no better way to observe Constitution Day than to read Walter Berns.