This article is about howthe Iraqi conflict compromises Russia's securityand that escalation of tension throughout the world jeopardizes relations with one ofthe major partners in the international arena.

On December 27, 2010, businessmen and entrepreneurs Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev received the maximum sentence, fourteen years, on patently fabricated charges. What is the impact of the sentencing on the Russian economy and foreign investments? How will the democratic opposition proceed in this political climate? And how should US policymakers deal with this new reality?

AEI Director of Russian Studies Leon Aron is available to comment on the trial verdict--announced on December 27--of former Yukos oil boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

There is a Russian saying, lyod tronulsya, which means the winter ice on the river has cracked and begun to move, that things have begun to change deeply and significantly. This is what's happening in today's Russia.

The comfortable way is to blame Trayvon Martin's death on 'the system,' and 'the system' is a white thing.

The Nobel Peace Prize is the world’s most prestigious award, as Jay Nordlinger argues in this erudite and insightful history. He has written not only the go-to reference book for the prize and its laureates but also an important philosophical reflection on the nature of “peace” in modern times.

The press has pilloried Boehner for walking away from debt negotiations, but it may prove to be one of the greatest moments of his speakership--and a turning point in the "Cold War" over our national debt.