To be taken seriously as a major power, India must show that it has influence over its own backyard.

Having good services cannot make up for delivering difficult but necessary budget decisions, especially if our goal is public good.

President-elect Barack Obama has pledged to double U.S. foreign aid, and Representative Howard Berman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, has stated that foreign aid reform will be on the agenda of the 111th Congress. Yet the field of development has changed significantly over the past decade,...

Last week's presidential election in South Korea presages a sea change in that key U.S. ally's policies toward North Korea.

The Iraq constitution has now been voted on, and Saddam Hussein stands trial in an Iraqi court.

State bankruptcy must serve to break the stranglehold of public-sector unions over state politics and budgets; help restore the federal government's precommitment against bailing out states; and advance, rather than distract from, the far more fundamental federalism reforms that will be required over the coming years.

The December 2007 presidential election in South Korea presages a sea change in that key U.S. ally's policies toward North Korea.