For several weeks now it’s been clear that Putin won’t attend this month’s NATO summit in Chicago. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen recently spoke with Russia’s new/old president and explained that it’s “not possible and not practical” for Putin to participate because of his “busy domestic calendar.”

With the Supreme Court taking up Arizona’s “show me your papers” immigration law, we’re once again thrust into a useful debate over the role of the government and the obligations of the citizen — and non-citizen. Rather than come at it from the usual angle, I thought I’d try something...

Review of Heather Mac Donald's Are Cops Racist?

The U.S. could choose to follow the lead of the United Kingdom, where all arrestees suspected of serious offenses are included in a DNA database. New research shows the approach would save 415 lives per year.

Ever since its founding in 1948, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has maintained an aggressive and bellicose international security posture. Today, fully two decades after the end of the Cold War, North Korea's external defense and security policies look arguably more extreme and anomalous than ever.

As England is wracked by spreading mobs of anarchist youth, Britain's Home Secretary reveals the rot at the core of the modern entitlement state.

Is India a weak link in what used to be called the global war on terror?

As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to China this week for yearly strategic consultations, a daring bid for political asylum has highlighted the seething dissent beneath China’s surface stability.