Cuba hopes that an end to the U.S. trade embargo will suddenly render workable an economic system--Communism--that has failed everywhere else on the globe.

The president's decision to allow offshore oil drilling was seemingly based on a goal of energy independence, but energy independence is a silly economic misconception.

In Cuba the Morning After: Confronting Castro’s Legacy (AEI Press, September 2003), AEI scholar Mark Falcoff discusses Cuba’s future after four decades of communism. Falcoff deals with Cuba as a country whose revolutionary legacy may well have permanently destroyed its viability as a nation-state. Most importantly, Falcoff argues that...

The United States should not compromise its values by handing unilateral concessions to Cuba and should instead complete trade deals with freer nations.

Anew showdown will occur between Europe--with its resolve never to use force--and America--with its impatience with Europe's penchant for appeasement.

President George W Bush is savouring headlines hailing him as a new Ronald Reagan spreading liberty in his wake after his tour of Europe.

Lifting the embargo on Cuba would remove Castro's principal excuse for his failures and would quickly undermine his regime.