Half a century later, the Bay of Pigs is still the mother of all American military and foreign-policy disasters. It marks the start of America's bizarre habit of fighting our enemies with one arm pinned firmly behind our back, and dumping our friends when the going gets dicey. It also offers some pungent lessons for our current messes in Libya and Afghanistan.

Sargent Shriver never attained elective office as the three Kennedy brothers and assorted offspring did, but he achieved something as important, or more so.

Paper presented at the Conference on School Board Politics at the JFK School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from October 16 to 17, 2003.

Getting into a contest with President Obama over who is a better friend of business is not the winner some might think. The water will get very muddy very quickly if Romney campaigns on who is business' BFF, especially when you consider that one of the things Romney did at Bain Capital was take businesses apart.

The Financial Times’s Ed Luce has a largely incomprehensible column on the witches’ brew of Iran, Barack Obama, Israel, and the Republicans in today’s paper. Starting off coherently, Luce notes that 2012 may be the “year of Iran,” if Tehran achieves nuclear capability,...

Who knew that the centennial of Reagan's birth would be the occasion for a remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers?

For more than half a century, that countdown sequence has signaled the start of another daring plunge into the unknown-- what we've come to know as "The Right Stuff."

Most Americans wouldn't want their child to choose politics as a career, even as they believe their child could grow up to be president.