The late New York Times columnist Bill Safire was known for channeling the “Great Mentioner,” the unseen oracle who launched political careers into the stratosphere simply by mentioning a person’s name. Today, a more malevolent oracle is at work in Washington — call him the “Great Whisperer” — seeking to...

May Day provides a good chance tocatch up on the history of the communist movement.

Saddam Hussein's appeal, insofar as he ever had any, was as a strong central power, willing to subjugate Iraq's intractable minorities (and its important Shiite majority) into more pliant Iraqi citizens. Early in his rule he had even seemed willing to grant a degree of Kurdish autonomy--an...

Engagement with enemies remains President Obama's wonder drug, but the only path to victory in Afghanistan is to decisively defeat the Taliban leadership.

Our turnout, which is basically the lowest among Western democracies, is pretty embarrassing.

Frederick M. Hess and others evaluate and analyze the work of latter-day pioneers in public education.

The three potential candidates in the presidential election have many positive attributes.

The Sunshine Policy, an effort to engage North Korea initially implemented under South Korean president Kim Dae Jung, appears increasingly ineffective in light of North Korea's continued nuclear threat and oppression of its people.