Efforts of the European and English media to demonize Silvio Berlusconi, whose center-right coalition is favored to win the Italian elections, is insane.

The transatlantic relationship must not become a casualty of the current Iraqi regime's persistent attempts to threaten world security.

Because of massive, sustained budget deficits by several eurozone countries, some could default on their sovereign debt obligations, or the euro itself might disintegrate, profoundly affecting the EU’s political and economic future. Very little media attention, however, is focused on a very different, but even more important, EU problem, namely its “democratic deficit.”

Silvio Berlusconi has won a third term as Italy's prime minister. His victory may have important consequences.

Can Prodi surpass Berlusconi when it comes to free-market reforms? Yes, and reforms wouldn"t come a moment too soon.

While the outcome of NATO's intervention in Libya is still uncertain, the ongoing drift toward a negotiated solution is fraught with potentially debilitating problems for the Western alliance.

The current financial crisis is an entirely political phenomenon, caused by bad regulation and overcome only by the reestablishment of an institutional system based on responsibility and on the assumption of reasonable risk.

Saving the euro is up to them, not us. They're perfectly entitled to try to create an alternative to the US dollar as the world's reserve currency, but we are equally free to let it fail.