Amb. Bolton’s interview last night on Fox News “On the Record” with Greta Van Susteren discussing the latest on Chinese dissident, Chen Guangchen

With 2011 winding down, AEI’s foreign policy experts take an only partly tongue in cheek look at the year that’s passed and the one ahead. Who’s in, who’s out? What’s up, what’s down?

Suffice to say that this important bill may be the last, best hope for reforming the Postal Service before taxpayers are handed the bill for its impending fiscal Armageddon.

Last year's repeal of the final remaining vestige of Regulation Q, the prohibition of payment of interest on business demand deposits, at long last completed a pro-competitive process which began with the Monetary Control Act of 1980.  The repeal was and is a good idea.  We can easily see this by asking and answering half a dozen simple questions, to make the matter clear.

US government foreign assistance health programs are currently focused on combating HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, which account for several million deaths each year across Africa. The United States should prioritize sustaining the hard-won gains in disease control, which requires focusing on programs with proven track records of success and addressing failures within those programs.

With Perry out and Gingrich damaged, Santorum looks ready to catch a break.

There have been repeated warnings from across the political spectrum that Medicare spending will bankrupt the country unless it is curbed. AEI's Joseph Antos and a panel of experts will discuss what it would take to overcome political and technical roadblocks to necessary action.