Rep. Ron Paul is in a dead heat with Mitt Romney for first place in the Iowa caucuses. If he does pull out a win on Tuesday, Iowa Republicans will have chosen as their commander in chief a man who says it was wrong to kill Osama bin Laden.

Oil hashit U.S. $43.94 a barrel, an all-time record. Americans are now paying U.S. $400 million a day for imported oil.

Despite what many believe, it is impossible to gain energy independence.

Even though President Barack Obama will certainly nominate a liberal to the Supreme Court, he could still nominate a jurist who believes in judicial restraint, unlike Justice John Paul Stevens.

Five years into the war on terror, inept U.S. diplomacy risks undercutting a key democracy (and ally) that President Bush once called a model for the Muslim world.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's message during his monthly television address in June was clear: Ataturk is dead, but Islam lives on.

The story of Afghanistan in the 1990s is a story of the limits of diplomacy for its own sake, and diplomacy for its own sake is a cornerstone of President Barack Obama's foreign policy; will this administration repeat the mistakes of the past?

If we decide to deny firms from developing nations--Arab, Asian, or otherwise--from investing in the United States, those firms will go elsewhere.