In recent years, the U.S. military has grown increasingly dependent on private contractors. From servicing equipment to training indigenous forces to providing security, contractors are now deeply woven into the fabric of American warfare. In Iraq, there are now more private contractors than non-U.S. foreign forces.

How did contractors become...

Walter Russell Mead’s column in the Wall Street Journal last week praises America’s bipartisan policy in Asia, claiming that it may be as influential as NATO or the Marshall Plan. I’m a bit less optimistic than Mead on the depth of strength our policy has. It’s not a Potemkin village, but I think it falls short of the informally cohesive structure he sees.

WikiLeaks is not a news organization but a criminal enterprise that threatens the national security of the United States, and it must be penalized as such.

We should not fear, or object to, the competition of foreign markets; in fact, we should welcome it. But we shouldn't impair our own ability to compete with needless and costly regulation.

John R. Bolton's new book is a bleak but not entirely hopeless assessment of the state of the United Nations andAmerican and European foreign ministries.

Cost-benefit analysis of regulatory change may provide insights that could enhance the efficiency of our markets and strengthen investor protection at the same time.

As we applaud steps forward and work to bolster the Israelis and the Palestinians, we should remember past missteps.

Europe has been slow to respond to the menace of terrorism, but there are signs that its perception of threats is converging with that of the United States.