The best European tourist sights are those where you can see the present layered upon the past.

Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s first democratically elected leader in the federation’s thousand-year history, died on April 23, 2007. During his presidency, Yeltsin institutionalized the vital liberties that Mikhail Gorbachev had granted only provisionally and often by default: freedom from government censorship of speech and of the press; free elections; freedom of...

Ask Americans what they think the First Amendment protects, and they will tell you “freedom of speech.”  But few will think of the amendment’s third protection: “freedom of assembly.” In his provocative new book, “Liberty’s Refuge, The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly,” Washington University School of Law professor John Inazu implores Americans to keep in mind the importance of this protection.

The time is coming for Romney to get angry, very angry, with what is increasingly, quaintly called "the mainstream media."

Many Republican House members and the bloggers and Tea Partiers who cheered their victory in gaining a majority in November 2010 seem to be seething with discontent and eager for confrontation.They believe, reasonably, that that victory represented a repudiation of the vast expansion of government by the Obama...

Washington Post editorial writer and liberal blogger Jonathan Capehart is puzzled. Why does the "non-issue" of Harvard law professor and Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's Native American ancestry "require so much attention?" he asked last week.

When Warren was teaching at Pennsylvania, Texas and...

AEI Resident Scholar Leon Aron delivered the third of AEI"s 1999-2000 Bradley Lectures on November 8, 1999.

Yeltsin’s legacy--a distorted but functioning market economy, and a flawed but real multi-party democracy--appears impervious to the desperate thrashing about in the Kremlin.