Despite government efforts to contain it, Chinese villagers are using "village democracy" to gain the skills and mores of democratic, self-governing people.

Atheists who think that believers are simple have a simplistic understanding of belief.

Government regulation imposes enormous "taxes" on drug development that are ultimately passed along to consumers as higher prices.

Government regulation imposes enormous "taxes" on drug development that are ultimately passed along to consumers as higher prices.

Amb. Bolton’s interview last night on Fox News “On the Record” with Greta Van Susteren discussing the latest on Chinese dissident, Chen Guangchen

On August 13, 2009, hundreds of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan fighters descended upon a village in South Waziristan and engaged fighters loyal to Hajji Turkistan Bhittani, a rival, "pro-government" militant commander.

Ineffective drugs take lives, waste money and make precious cures useless. Drugs have been recycled after their expiry date; they have been contaminated with fatal toxins; they have been made too weak or with no active ingredient at all.

Walter Russell Mead’s column in the Wall Street Journal last week praises America’s bipartisan policy in Asia, claiming that it may be as influential as NATO or the Marshall Plan. I’m a bit less optimistic than Mead on the depth of strength our policy has. It’s not a Potemkin village, but I think it falls short of the informally cohesive structure he sees.