Here is one issue that is crying out for Congressional focus: election procedure and reform.

The American flag is unusual, both in looks and significance. But as symbol of the nation, it has a meaning and a function beyond what individual citizens make of it.

Trade restrictions arepreventing both continents from achieving their full potential, and it was time to start thinking "transcontinentally" because there are pockets of protectionism on both sides.

Ambassador Bolton's review of John Fonte's book "Sovereignty vs. Submissions:  Will Americans Rule Themselves of be Ruled by Others?"

This summer, Washington was given patriotism and obscenity to deal with when the Supreme Court upheld the burning of the flag by an angry Gregory Johnson and when an embarrassed Corcoran Gallery cancelled an exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpephotographs

There are some similarities between the seizure of the U.S. embassy and the attack against the British embassy, and history indeed seems to be repeating itself.

Hanoi

Reflecting its buzzing energy, Vietnam is eager to play a larger role in Asia. Given the challenges it faces, America would welcome another willing partner in an increasingly tense region. But the gap between Washington and Hanoi remains large, and unless both sides take the courtship...

Thank you, Madam Chairman.Among the very top priorities of U.S. foreign and security policies, I doubt there are many – if any – objectives more important than a free, democratic, stable, and prosperous Russia, at peace, in the long last, with its own people, its neighbors and the...