Poverty is a human problem, not simply an economic one, and it demands a human response. How should we as individuals respond to the problem of poverty in our communities? What role should institutions play in helping the poor?

Despite a spate of recent attacks, the Pakistani military operation to push Taliban militants out of the Swat valley still holds long-term promise as the conditions on the ground would make a Taliban resurgence difficulty.

The myth of free, high-qualityCuban health care.

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Note the different starting time . . . 6:00 p.m.!

Join us as our lively ensemble returns to the “Cultural Evenings” with readings from John Milton’s Paradise Lost. James Bowman, resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy...

The U.S. economymay be nearing the end of a benign, unusual period of faster growth and lower inflation and moving into a period of slower growth and higher inflation.

Throughout his career, Robert Kagan has been a severe critic of foreign policy realists who emphasize the "balance of power" at the expense of morality, ideology, and principle. Yet, in this book Kagan's emphasis is mostly on power, not morality or democracy.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese-Americans were put in concentration camps. That there was no comparable overreaction after 9/11, and that we have been able to preserve a free and open society, owes much to the fact that for 10 years there has been no repetition of those terrible attacks.