This bookfocuses on Panama mismanagement of the U.S. properties it received and its cavalier disregard of environmental considerations crucial to the efficient operation of the canal.

A new treaty with appropriate status-of-forces agreements must be negotiated, signed, and sent to this distinguished body for ratification.

In less than five years, the United States will leave Panama, turning over complete control of the canal to national authorities there, bringing to a close a transition period of more than twenty years. How well is this process going?

The United States will leave Panama, turning over complete control of the canal to national authorities there, bringing to a close a transition period of more than twenty years.

The House and Senate elections of 2010 have similarities with the elections of 1980, when many Republicans owed their election to populist reaction against the Panama Canal Treaties.

Chris Christie has shown that confrontational leadership can get results and produce more admirers than detractors. Barack Obama has shown that lack of leadership leaves pretty much everyone dissatisfied.

The Laffer Curve—the conceptual device illustrating how high marginal tax rates reduced revenue and economic growth—helped revolutionize tax policy around the world thirty five years ago. Today we need a new Laffer Curve—for regulation.  

The Justice Department’s recent announcement that an Iranian agent attempted to recruit a Mexican drug gang to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in the United States presents an opportunity for the Obama administration finally to draw the line on Iran’s growing presence in the Western Hemisphere.