This book shows why idealism offers the soundest basis for U.S. policy.

AEI's Political Report compiles the latest polls and looks at Americans' qualms about exporting democracy.

Most of the exchanges rested on the ideological debate over how much attention -- and corresponding funds -- should be paid to crises abroad while economic troubles at home remain paramount from voter polls to Capitol Hill.

Obama may want to engage Iran's current leadership, but he should throw them no lifeline.

A successful US strategy in South Asia would involve continuing the bipartisan consensus on deepening ties with India while devising a new, more robust approach toward Pakistan that presses it to combat radical Islamist militancy more effectively.

Michael Rubin reviews Joshua Muravchik's book, The Next Founders: Voices of Democracy in the Middle East .

America should notworry too much about the criticisms it receives from the rest of the world.