Under current law, the U.S. Department of Defense automatically faces significant spending cuts over the next 10 years—cuts that america's civilian and military leaders have cadidly described as "devastating" and "very high risk."

John Bolton argues it is time for a harsh crackdown on a misbehaving North Korea, while James Kelly thinks we need to give talks a chance.

Robert Maranto, Richard E. Redding, and Frederick M. Hess, along with nineteen other scholars and practitioners, examine how the politically correct imperative to promote "diversity"--of race, ethnicity, and gender, but not of ideas--has diverted higher education from its true purposes.

Kim Jong Il, for his part, is alive and well but prone to egregious lapses of judgment, especially in a crunch.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's ineptitude as a leader is what makes the present crisis withthat countryso scary.

At this book event marking the release of

A new AEI report exposes the dramatic variation in completion rates across nearly 1,400 U.S. colleges and universities.