Should we impose a means test on Social Security and Medicare benefits? No.

Hope springs eternal among policy makers in Europe’s beleaguered periphery. At five minutes to midnight in Athens, and with a bank run having started in Madrid, these policy makers cling to the forlorn hope that somehow Germany is going to relent on its strong opposition to euro bonds.

The Cold War is an increasingly distant memory in American military minds, except in the minds of the arms control community, and in particular those who seek the elimination of nuclear weapons. Alas, our president is a member in good standing of this community—indeed, an organizer.So, too, it...

The experience of twenty-one countries over thirty-seven years yields a simple truth: cutting spending works, and raising taxes does not.

Scholars and analysts can help policymakers advance U.S. interests in Asia by assessing the dynamic Sino-U.S. balance of power in the region.

The changing demographic profiles of the major Asian powers will directly affect the ability of these states to increase their power and extend their influence internationally.

America has become accustomed to projecting air and sea power with impunity anywhere in the world, but China has been studying how to undermine the way we do battle for decades, and its efforts are bearing fruit.

While a line-item veto would enable a president willing to take the political heat to excise the wasteful spending of pork-addled lawmakers, it is less fulfilling than it appears and would bring a major cost to the constitutional balance.