The U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) and AEI will be launching a new HRNK report entitled, “Marked For Life: Songbun, North Korea’s Social Classification System,” which will be discussed at this event. The panel will also examine the extent to which the growing reliance on money and bribery is eroding the songbun system’s influence.

The author offers a tightly observed chronicle of America's relationship with the world since the end of the Cold War.

In honor of North Korea Freedom Week, an expert panel discusses human rights in North Korea following a presentation on the impact of recent events by Ambassador Robert R. King, the Obama administration's special envoy for North Korean human-rights issues.

Conjuring fear of Nazism and anti-Semitism, Jews recoil from the thought that Judaism might be a race, but medical geneticist Harry Ostrer insists the 'biological basis of Jewishness' cannot be ignored.    In his new book, “Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People,” Harry Ostrer, a medical geneticist...

This event discussed the current state of U.S. counterterrorism policy and what can be done to address emerging threats to our security.

Poverty is a human problem, not simply an economic one, and it demands a human response. How should we as individuals respond to the problem of poverty in our communities? What role should institutions play in helping the poor?

Let’s start with the stark reality: Second presidential terms rarely result in major accomplishments. Presidents have few new ideas that have not been posed in their first two years, and already met with success or failure. And second-term presidents face even more obduracy from the opposition, bitter at a second loss of the big prize. 

The new Obama drug initiative is of a piece with the administration's abiding faith in the virtue of government investment as a trump to private entrepreneurism. At the core of this religion is a faith that that the political allocation of capital leads to better, or at least more "equitable" outcomes.