Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a man whose political success is largely attributable to the aura of befuddled incompetence he uses to disarm his adversaries, was a failed Watergate baby.

In times of war, when U.S. security is threatened, presidents typically push their executive powers forward. This is something the Founders surely understood.

A democratic Ukraine would not be anti-Russian; but it would inevitably generate strong pressures for a democratic revival in Russia. With real democracy in Ukraine, more and more Russians would view the Putin regime as an anachronism.

The unprecedented international position of the United States in the post-Cold War period has helped catalyze an important debate in the foreign policy community about whether it has become an empire.

U.S. President George W. Bush can again look deeply into the eyes of Russia's Vladimir Putin at their summit next week. But unlike at their first encounter, when Mr. Bush said he had seen Mr. Putin's soul and learned to trust him, the U.S. president this time must use the occasion to make clear that the dissolution of the Soviet Union is final and irreversible.

Japanese like to think their aesthetic sensibility is shaped in no small part by the cherry blossom: its vibrant beauty, celebrated in art and literature for centuries, is all too quickly blown away by the wind and rain. People ...

The Byzantine Empire’s long run — 1,100 years — may seem remote from the 21st century, but a reading of its history offers at least three timeless lessons.

The question today is whether suffering preemptive strikes, and not committing to a prolonged wartime national-mobilization-type effort, might stop Iran’s program both operationally and politically.