Success in relief and recovery operations will depend in no small part on the strength of the Japanese government, but a very weakened premier must lead Japan through what Naoto Kan rightly calls its greatest crisis since World War II.

Francoise Hollande’s defeat of Americain Nicolas Sarkozy does matter when it comes to foreign policy because Sarkozy has arguably been the most alliance-friendly French leader in decades—perhaps ever. 

With few born and far too many dying, Russia is caught in a demographic straitjacket.

The time has come for the "Berlin Wall of aid" to fall.

The Legatum Prosperity Index finds countries that dumped the shackles of communism for a system of freedom and political transparency are much more likely to be prosperous.

To commemorate, after all, is to remember. And Americans need to remember, not just that the Wall fell, but why it fell.

The occasion of remembering the fall of the Wall is a fitting time to recall the broader sweep of events that surrounded it.

There are echoes of history in the Beijing Olympics and the Russian invasion of Georgia.