Talks aimed at resolving the Iranian nuclear weapons threat will again resume this Friday. In Seoul late last month, the President reminded Iran that it must act with “‘urgency.” “There is time to solve this diplomatically,” Obama enthused. “It is always my preference to solve these issues diplomatically. But time is short.”

The ongoing sovereign debt crisis in Europe continues to weigh heavily oncredit markets and political systems throughout the developed world. 

Like all our political institutions, the presidency has evolved with the growth of the nation and the pace of change in the modern world. Three key changes come to mind.

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.

Manuel Roig-Franzia went too far in accusing Marco Rubio of "embellishing" and questioning his place as a member of the exile community. You don't charge someone of lying without proof. And you don't question the core of someone's identity without a shred of evidence.

Obama's supporters might suggest that the jobs picture would have been far worse without the president's big-government, high-regulation policies. But past presidents were far less ambitious in hard times, and saw far better results.

A shrinking population coupled with a lower life expectancy, as is the case in Russia and other post-Soviet societies, may prove detrimental to economic growth and well being.

As the international community and the US discovered in the early 1990s, getting humanitarian aid to needy Somalis is not an apolitical undertaking. It may not even be possible without being drawn into conflict in the Horn of Africa once again.