Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina will discuss the complicated relationship between the federal government and the states and her own experiences fighting government regulation.

A candidate's strengths can also be his weaknesses. Take the case of Rick Santorum.

How does Japan begin to rebuild? What are the long-term strategic implications of the disaster for the US-Japan alliance? At this AEI event, an expert panel will address these and other questions.

If there is any nation that can resist the siren song of retreat and decline, it is this one. A country that continues to believe that life will be better after a nuclear attack is a country that believes in its own future.

If Romney can’t defend free-market capitalism against Gingrich, how will he be able to defend it in the fall against Obama?

Here are a couple of things to keep in mind about Newt Gingrich, as he leads in polls for the Republican presidential nomination nationally and in Iowa and South Carolina and may be threatening Mitt Romney's lead in New Hampshire. One is that he is an autodidact. A second is that he has incredible perseverance.

The political culture created by the Constitution has made Americans a people uniquely optimistic, lacking in class envy, and confident that that they are in charge of their own lives.

The "Reagan Revolution," as its most fervent proponents called it, explored the potential for, and discovered the limits of, conservative reform of modern government. While Reagan enjoyed many political successes and made enduring changes to some areas of policy, he also failed or fell short in several of his chief...