Obama, who found time to go on a twenty-four-hour jaunt to Copenhagen on October 2 to seek the 2016 Olympics games for Chicago, apparently cannot find the time for a twenty-four-hour trip to Berlin on November 9 for a celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

What impact will a new law banning online gambling have on innovative information markets?

Late last month, as Congress rushed to adjourn, lawmakers passed legislation that would make it a crime for credit card companies and banks to send payments to Internet gambling sites.

Though no longer a Cold War rival, Russia continues to pose immense challenges for the United States. The Kremlin’s perception of Russia as an “independent pole in a multi-polar world” often results in Russian policies that place the country at odds with the West. Russia’s current political elites are determined to prevent—and in some cases roll back—color revolutions in the former Soviet Union. They fear that successful democratization on Russia’s periphery will rouse similar demands at home. Regardless, the Kremlin’s ineffective authoritarian governance has stimulated a wave of large-scale protests in recent months that likely mark the beginning of Russia’s transition away from the Vladimir Putin era.

In making informed decisions about behavior, an individual needs to know the probability that he will be personally affected by a terrorist act, not what the probability is that such an act may occur at some place and some time.

The new Bush administration has engaged in sharp tiffs with onetime Cold War enemies Russia, China and North Korea - 12 years after the first President Bush declared a post-Cold War "new world order."

Today’s bombing of an Israeli diplomat’s car in New Delhi is sure to raise international scrutiny on India’s problematic ties with Iran.

"The choice in this election is between an economy that produces a growing middle class and that gives people a chance to get ahead and their kids a chance to get ahead, and an economy that continues down the road we are on, where a fewer and fewer number of people do very well and everybody else is running faster and faster just to keep pace."