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 corruption of the human rights ideal has to be fought not only at the United Nations, but inside the domestic institutions of Western nations--and within our own minds and consciences.

The decision not to attend the United Nations conference is likely the Obama administration's most painful foreign policy call to date.

The Obama administration's foreign policy performance has been uneven--with its withdrawal from the United Nations group preparing for "Durban II" merely the most obvious mess.

America's lawsuit culture is transforming our society, but there's been little focus on why litigation spun out of control over the last 30 years.

The main domestic concern of policy-engaged intellectuals, liberal and conservative, ought to be to think hard about how to change social weaknesses.

The extraordinary efforts of government, private enterprise, and educators have notstemmed the rise of single-parent black families and the problems associated with those families.

Obama is the first post-American president; central to his worldview is rejecting American exceptionalism and the consequences that flow therefrom.