Just days after U.S. forces withdrew from Iraq, a series of attacks in Baghdad have raised doubts about the security of the country, while political upheaval threatens to undermine its government. AEI’s vice president for foreign and defense policy studies, Danielle Pletka, shared some questions with U.S. Senator John McCain.

McCain was briefed in detail more than once on enhanced interrogation, so he knows full well that enhanced techniques were not used to gain intelligence from detainees — they were used to compel their cooperation.

Too bad McCain and Obama can't run together, saving the rest of us the strange choice between them.

The United States is not winning in Afghanistan.

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."

McCain has been performing variations on this same trick for a decade now: vibrating back and forth between Democrats and Republicans. Can a man really become president in this way?

How do people feel about some of today's most pressing issues, including avian flu, the Dubai ports deal dissolution, and the UN?

This event will be held in Hart Auditorium at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Is another Bush v. Gore possible? What if the U.S. Supreme Court held the fate of another presidential election in its hands?

November 4, 2008; a blizzard hits Denver, Colorado; the resulting whiteout causes total city gridlock,...