Just like the leaders of the civil rights movement, Russia's activists seek to effect vast political and social change by personal and deeply moral effort fueled from within.

President Obama's drawdown of American troops opens the door for other NATO members to withdraw troops as well. In this way, the future of the Afghan War may rest with the chancelleries of Europe.

The Kamdesh attacks echo a similar siege with similar results about a year ago in the village of Wanat, which provoked multiple U.S. military investigations and has been the subject of several extended media reports.

There are echoes of history in the Beijing Olympics and the Russian invasion of Georgia.

The Federal Reservemay have to address inflation sooner than it would like in order to avoid reliving the economic problems of the early eighties.

Inflation could climb to double digits, as it was in the early 1980s.

One of the happier unintended consequences of the global war on terror has been a flowering of thoughtful writing about war.

American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Russia expert, Leon Aron, recently traveled through Russia interviewing leaders of grass-roots movements. In a just released Russian Outlook, Aron describes the transformation underway in Russia.