What do the endlessly repeating cycle of futile Eurozone rescue talks and the endlessly repeating cycle of futile annual UN climate summits have in common? Put more plainly, what accounts for the unreality of both efforts, such that "breakthrough" agreements are soon recognized to be ineffective, if not fraudulent?

Putting the treaty against counterfeit medicines under the auspices of the UN Office of Drugs and Crime is on balance with a poor idea. WHO is, for now, still the best institution under which to negotiate and achieve a treaty for improving the quality of medicines.

The international diplomacy of climate change is the most implausible and unpromising initiative since the disarmament talks of the 1930s, and for many of the same reasons; that the Kyoto Protocol and its progeny are the climate diplomacy equivalent of the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 that promised to end war (a treaty that is still on the books, by the way), and finally, that future historians are going to look back on this whole period as the climate policy equivalent of wage and price controls to fight inflation in the 1970s.

The Founders intended for individuals to choose their representatives based on their character and how well they would promote the common good, not because of their membership in any one racial, ethnic, or religious group. The Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 sought to reaffirm this principle by outlawing the...

Joshua Muravchik's new book examines the failures of the United Nations to live up to its founding ideals and proposals for reform of the institution.

The approval by the Iraqi parliament of a strategic framework agreement represents a tremendous success for the United States and for a free Iraq.

The region's ability to police its own waters can come only after governments in the region have stabilized, are capable of managing militaries, and are able to fight piracy.

At the UN conference on climate change,concerns about impending climate change will be interspersed with attacks on the United States for not ratifying the Kyoto Protocol.