The government of the Philippines has yielded to the blackmail of Islamist terrorists; it has agreed to hasten the withdrawal of peacekeepersin Iraq in exchange for a hostage.

Beijing bests Manila in a naval standoff, worrying its neighbors.

On May 14, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced that the Department of the Interior had classified the polar bear as a threatened species, giving the bears protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The decision was itself momentous, the first listing of a species under the ESA in which the...

The media give misleading impressions of what actions saved the lives of people confronted by violence.

Manila may be turning from Washington to Beijing as its primary economic and security partner in the Asian-Pacific region.

Appeasing terror fails; so too does neglect of terror. Left alone, terrorism metastasizes. The only way to defeat terror is to raise the cost of the tactic.

Just how serious is America's culture clash with China?

The new Bush administration has engaged in sharp tiffs with onetime Cold War enemies Russia, China and North Korea - 12 years after the first President Bush declared a post-Cold War "new world order."