Iran's new Bolivarian buddies--Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, and Rafael Correa --are not the most cautious cats in the Western Hemisphere. But they look like Bismarkian "satisfied powers" by comparison to the drug cartels that are an increasing part of Iran's anti-American network.

Maps of the latest poll averages for the Senate and governors' races show Republicans leading over almost all of the landmass of America, showing a Democratic Party shrinking back to its bicoastal base.

The U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) and AEI will be launching a new HRNK report entitled, “Marked For Life: Songbun, North Korea’s Social Classification System,” which will be discussed at this event. The panel will also examine the extent to which the growing reliance on money and bribery is eroding the songbun system’s influence.

Twelve years into the 21st century, the dominant financial and economic fact is that we are still living in the wake of athe vast housing and mortgage bubble, which peaked in mid-2006, almost six years ago.  

Barack Obama’s presidency has had profoundly negative consequences for our national security. From debilitating cuts in defense budgets, to gutting national missile defense efforts, to his unwillingness to acknowledge a continuing war against terrorism, to his inability to stem the nuclear proliferation threats posed by North Korea and Iran....the picture is bleak.

Alan Ehrenhalt delivered the third of the 2003-2004 Bradley Lectures on November 3, 2003.

Alan Ehrenhalt's 11/3/2003 Bradley Lecture on the rise of conservatism in America.

A time traveler from the 1970s, looking upon American politics at the start of this presidential year, would find much of what he saw incomprehensible. Instead of the institutionalized Democratic power he had come to take for granted in Congress, he would find Republican majorities. He would discover a robust...