The Obama administration is not the first to fail to articulate a post-Cold War strategy for the United States, but the farther this can is kicked down the road the more difficult the challenge becomes. Our ability to secure the Middle East gives us enormous leverage over potential rivals like China, and is equally critical to our Asian allies like Japan and South Korea.

Harvard Graduate School of Education's Meira Levinson argues that recovering the civic purposes of public schools will take more than tweaking their curricula. Drawing on political theory, empirical research and her own experience from teaching at an all-black middle school in Atlanta, Levinson calls on schools to remake civic education.

In his new book, “Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines,” Roger Bate explores the underground trade in illegal medicines that kills over 100,000 people per year and supplants billions of dollars of real products.

Honduras is a watershed event--for Hondurans and for all the little guys who are tired of being pushed around by bullies, it is not a minute too soon.

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Businesses operating in economically and politically chaotic zones often face a no-win situation.

Multilateralism is not always the right way in crafting foreign policy.

The Cuban people need--and deserve--profound change, including political liberty and economic opportunity, even as Fidel and Raúl Castro favor a transition from one dictator to another that preserves the vestiges of the Cuban police state and the nation’s decrepit socialism. Yet much of the world is eager to support a...