What happened last week at West Point won't matter nearly so much as what will happen in Kandahar and Helmand in the next two years.

The least developed countries have been encouraged to seek ineffective trade preferences, rather than to adopt the internal political and economic reforms they need.

In essence, the G-8 went for the low-hanging fruit. It is easy to write checks, but far more difficult to change the policies that create poverty.

On Tuesday, May 15, join the American Enterprise Institute, the Center for a New American Security and the New America Foundation to discuss an issue sure to face the next president: U.S. defense spending in light of American grand strategy.

The European Union-or at least its feisty climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard-seems determined to take on the whole world by demanding that all airlines pay a carbon tribute for the privilege of crossing EU airspace and landing at EU airports.  

The Supreme Court created the election returns and the country seems more relieved than angry.

Baghdad is all atwitter over the P-5+1 talks with Iran beginning today. A sandstorm kept many European and Western diplomats from landing, but the Iranians were out in full force, with Iranian negotiator Saeed Jalili leading the way.

The White House has proposed a “Buffett Rule” mandating that taxpayers earning more than $1 million pay at least 30% of their income in federal income taxes. The unfairness the Obama administration has identified is only one limited, albeit  eye-catching, manifestation of more systemic problems in the tax code.