There are good reasons why the rhetoric from Moscow is harsher than Beijing’s. For a start, China knows lashing out at the U.S. is counterproductive.

Has one of our two major parties ever had a weaker field of presidential candidates in a year when its prospects for victory seemed so great? My answer, after hemming and hawing a bit, was yes: the Democratic party in 1932. 

Why did Obama's first jobs plan--the $825 billion stimulus--so quickly result in the need for another jobs plan? The economy would have benefitted far more if the government had instead improved the incentives for people and businesses to invest, produce and grow. The President probably won't mention any of this, but it does explain why he has to give his latest speech.

Ellen Sauerbreyhas the necessary ambition, attitude, and experience to act as assistant secretary of state for Population, Refugees, and Migration.

This event will discuss the future of U.S. policy towards Iran.

The reintegration of prisoners released from jail into society reveals a double standard.

The prosecution of Ahmed Ghailani is hanging by a thread because of the Obama administration's ideological insistence on treating terrorists like common criminals and trying them in federal courts.

Open Skies will not, in and of itself, suddenly make medium-sized markets more desirable to transatlantic air carriers.