The Sunshine Policy, an effort to engage North Korea initially implemented under South Korean president Kim Dae Jung, appears increasingly ineffective in light of North Korea's continued nuclear threat and oppression of its people.

The widespread success of charter legislation has fostered a perception that charter schooling is apolitical and has clouded our understanding of the politics of the issue.

The Bush administration's willingness to act unilaterally and in coalitions of the willing has led to a widespread perception that the United States is isolated on the world stage. Yet America's East Asian allies still profess their solidarity, with Australia, Japan, and South Korea--among others--contributing to the peacekeeping efforts in...

Years of waiting for China to play a more constructive global role have given way to the realization that American and Chinese national interests may simply be too divergent.

Has the American way of life--the vision of an increasingly prosperous future--become a dream of the past?

Lehman's shadow was not long enough to justify a bailout.

Who are we fighting in Iraq: domestic insurgents or foreign terrorists?

I was initially assigned the working title, "Pursuing Equality in Health Care for the Elderly Is Futile." I prefer to think of that particular dead end of health policy as one of listening to the wrong music for too long. Hence, this article revises the title song of the movie, Urban Cowboy, to "Looking for better health [rather than either "love" or "love of equality"] in all the wrong places.