The next president will be faced with this challenge: Will he or she pay reflexive obeisance to the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, or will the new president write his own narrative?

The future is on the way.  Leading-edge innovators, we are assured, have already moved on, and are earnestly focusing on the just the sort of problems - manufacturing, energy, transportation (and I'd add healthcare) - that urgently require imaginative solutions.

In "Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II," Pulitzer Prize finalist Arthur Herman describes how the U.S. won history’s greatest conflict by harnessing free market principles and private-sector creativity and innovation to increase war production.

Barack Obama will probably get a bounce out of the Democratic convention, but it is unclear whether his narrative can be sustained in the weeks and months ahead.

The Mountain West —Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah —has become the new swing region in American politics. All signs point to these states, especially Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico, being crucial in the 2012 election. Unfortunately, the rise of this region has been underreported in the media,...

Unlocking "unconventional" energy requires unconventional politics, and that's one resource that is genuinely scarce among today's backwards-looking bureaucrats and green interest groups.

India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has ever seen. In his book India: A Portrait, Patrick French chronicles that epic change, telling human stories to explain India’s larger national narrative and exposing the cultural foundations of its political, economic and social complexities. Sadanand Dhume, a resident fellow at AEI, will moderate a discussion about this book. Walter Andersen, director of SAIS’s South Asia program, will provide introductory remarks.