Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz are at a more than 20-year high after Iranian authorities threatened to close the 34-mile-wide channel through which more than one-third of the world's oil tanker traffic passes.

The Obama administration’s recent focus on finding a compromise to allow the Iranian regime to maintain some enrichment capabilities “for peaceful purposes” distracts from the underlying nuclear threat at hand.

Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez's record of providing money, arms, political support, and, yes, safe haven to groups waging a murderous war against a sovereign state openly violates international law.

It is hoped that President Obama's misadventures in foreign and security policy are due to inexperience and naiveté,and that he can learn from mistakes made in his first year in office to improve his foreign policy going forward.

Policy fantasies are dangerous because they cause direct harm, replacing plans that might actually work, and because they spread economic illiteracy that can negatively influence future policies.

President Obama's odds of enacting major health care reform this year are worse than winning at blackjack, despite the fact that it is his game, at his table, and with his dealer.

We are not in a cold war with China. That is too simple a metaphor to describe the state of Sino-American relations.

The conservative ruling party in El Salvador is waging a surprisingly uphill battle against the leftist front that waged a bloody guerrilla war in the 1970s and 1980s.