Earlier today, I passed along the exciting news that senior State Department official Wendy Sherman had once again helped deliver the North Koreans to the negotiating table, a reprise of her Nork work of the Clinton years.  And indeed, the deal done looks a lot like the deal Mrs Sherman did back then, except….

Tomorrow, AEI will release a report, “Containing and Deterring a Nuclear Iran,” which I co-authored with my colleagues Tom Donnelly and Maseh Zarif. (It will be live here tomorrow at 9 a.m.) We’ll talk about it at an event on the Hill with Senator Mark Kirk at 10:30 tomorrow morning.

The argument is being made in some quarters that, however unsuccessful Barack Obama's domestic policies have been, his record in foreign policy has been successful. But when you examine the claims of success, they seem a bit peculiar.

In 2008, the "politics of hope" campaign trained volunteers to testify about how they "came to Obama" the way one talks of "coming to Jesus." Now they ask supporters to help build a digital enemies list. Which they'll do, of course. But not because they love him.

This Bradley Lecture is based on Brooks’s new book, “The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise” (Basic Books, May 2012).

In "Pakistan: A Hard Country" author Anatol Lieven brings an infectious enthusiasm to his task of summarizing the working of the world's sixth most populous country. But his view of the country's military is dangerously benign.

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France is losing more public support due to his recent marriage to his singer-supermodel sweetheart.

Jonah Goldberg's new book explores and dismantles a number of cliches used in the war of ideas.