Bob Gates is a good man who did a thankless job with grace and skill. But when our military needed a loud and firm advocate, he let Obama offer us, instead, a bleak future of shrinking American power.His successors need to correct course and take a bold stand to keep us strong as well as safe.

In many ways, the most interesting dynamic right now is that surrounding Speaker John Boehner, who has in the past been a first-rate legislator, knows how the legislative process works and knows the risks of a shutdown--to the economy and to his party--are high.

If you look at the U.S. budget trajectory with an eye on the lessons from Japan's recent history, there's a strong case that the U.S. rating should be cut immediately.

Before taking a further hatchet to defense, Congress could make a more serious effort to reverse increases in domestic spending put in place by the Obama Administration.

The United States should protect the Iraqi electoral process from anyone seeking to manipulate its outcome.

The Obama administration refused to defend me against the lawsuit filed for José Padilla. Now even the liberal Ninth Circuit agrees the suit was frivolous.

This report is designed to help generate serious reflections on how best to preserve the ROC's own accomplishments as a people and a government and to enable it to choose its own future as free of coercion as possible.

Panelists will discuss a new report by the the Taiwan Policy Working Group.