Since his election as president of Venezuela in 1998, leftist strongman Hugo Chávez has shattered his country’s already weak institutions to expand and sustain his grip on power and has built an anti-U.S. alliance with Cuba, Iran, Russia and China.

The president's black-and-white vision is regarded as dangerously simplistic.

The best thing the Obama Administration did for Asia did not happen in Asia. Sure it was important that the president announced the movement of troops to Australia.  Equally so was the announcement of the Trans Pacific Partnership which could lead to greater trade liberalization and is a powerful way to tie allies together.

Obama should stop claiming that Bush policies created the mess that we are in. If they did, then Obama's policies will only make things worse.

Joshua Muravchik reviews After Bush: The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy by Timothy J. Lynch and Robert S. Singh.

The presidential trip to Britain brought thousands of protesters on to the streets. Two Telegraph writers give contrasting views about their objectives.

With a week between the Iowa and New Hampshire caucuses, Howard Dean does not have time to correct his image of nastiness and reverse Kerry"s momentum in New Hampshire.

Though itis unusual for a senior American politician to engage in direct personal criticism of another, that didn't stop Al Gore--or Hillary Clinton.