Jared Lee Loughner was a sick, tortured soul, and trying to find deep meaning in his favorite books list is a fool's errand.

North Korea's Kim Jong-Il, who passed away at the age of 69, has bequeathed a legacy of poverty and starvation to the country's subject population, and a highly uncertain future to his nominal legatees, the Communist royals of his dynastic police state.

The past two weeks of turmoil and drama in Sino-American affairs may well be the new normal, not an exception to an otherwise placid bilateral relationship. While Friday brought news of a possible deal allowing dissident Chen Guangcheng to leave China to study in America, that deal is no more certain than the earlier, failed deal, announced just days before

As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to China this week for yearly strategic consultations, a daring bid for political asylum has highlighted the seething dissent beneath China’s surface stability.

TheChinese Communist Partyis determined to maintain its power monopoly in a growing, restive society.

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Paul Hollander of the Davis Center and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst will deliver the March Bradley Lecture.

Why did many well-known supporters of communist states become disillusioned with these systems and their ideals? How did disillusioned...

Ever since its founding in 1948, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has maintained an aggressive and bellicose international security posture. Today, fully two decades after the end of the Cold War, North Korea's external defense and security policies look arguably more extreme and anomalous than ever.

The removal of a top Communist party official doesn’t tell us much.