We must abandon the mirages, to which Obama still clings, that Iran might negotiate an acceptable "solution" to its nuclear weapons program, or merely that economic sanctions will somehow force Iran to negotiate. No wonder the Iranian regime mocks us for weakness and willful blindness.

Libya's interim government made a correct, startlingly independent judgment just before Thanksgiving, announcing that Libya, not the International Criminal Court (ICC), would try Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, Moammar Qaddafi's favorite son and once-likely successor.

A vote for John Kerry is a vote for judges who will have no trouble persuading themselves that the Constitution includes a right to same-sex marriage.

The states' rights solution on gay marriage will not work. Without a federal marriage amendment, we will wind up with same-sex marriage in fifty states.

That American culture is unraveling and its institutions becoming ever more fragile is so widely acc epted that it does not require discussion.

The news from Peru has not been good of late--a breakdown of the government's coalition, strikes and labor disorders, even a possible revival of the Sendero Luminoso guerrilla movement.

While the world’s attention is focused on a struggling Iraq and a rising China, a battle for the heart and soul of the Americas is being waged closer to home.

Latin American and Caribbean economies, usually susceptible to international financial turmoil, are especially vulnerable to even minor tremors in U.S. markets.