With Europe collapsing, China stumbling, and India and Brazil retreating from full free market reform, we’re the last stable, pro-growth economy left.  

The Speaker of the House at the turn of the twentieth century could not resist imperialism and quietly resigned.

James Grant of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer will deliver the October Bradley Lecture.

Representative Thomas B. Reed of Maine, three times Speaker of the House of Representatives in the final quarter of the 19th century, stood for all the Republican verities but one: he could not abide his party’s imperialist...

Everyone knows presidents have larger-than-life size egos. It goes with the job. But changes on the official White House website reveal that we've never had a self-regarding narcissist quite like the oval Office's current occupant.

Regime actually describes an entire system of government. And if the American regime is imperial only when Republicans are in power, then it's not a serious claim, it's just a convenient and partisan slander.

Could it be that those who represent the isolationist impulse are not overwhelmingly popular? That Americans actually believe in all that 'empire for liberty' claptrap? Apparently.

Not many people noticed during the run up to the Iowa caucuses and last year's payroll tax fight that a far more important, and potentially game-changing, resolution passed the Senate at the end of 2011.