What the U.S. military has been up to in the Horn of Africa.

Hailu Shawel, leader of the opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy in Ethiopia, spoke at a private AEI luncheon on September 16 about the prospects for political and economic freedom in East Africa.

The trade in inferior quality medicines kills innocent patients. Perhaps 15 percent of the global drug supply outside of advanced countries is counterfeit, rising in certain markets in parts of Africa and Asia to over 50 percent. But counterfeits are not the only low-quality drugs on the market.

From 1996 until the middle of 2006, an anarchic equilibrium had sometimes provided safe haven to terrorists operating in East Africa. But in June 2006, an Islamic fundamentalist movement known as the Islamic Courts Union seized control of Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, despite an unsuccessful U.S. attempt to strengthen a coalition...

Amnesty’s call for Bush’s arrest was a blatantly partisan act — and it wasn’t the first time the group had done so.

While the United States consumes a disproportionate share of global resources devoted to medical care, this global share is shrinking.

We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and combatants in the Arab Spring’s fight against tyranny. But, in fact, a wholly different kind of war is underway—an unrecognized battle costing thousands of lives. Christians are being killed in the Islamic world because of their religion. It is a rising genocide that ought to provoke global alarm.