Is global governance fundamentally different from earlier forms of international cooperation? Is it a necessary response to the effects of globalization? Does the U.S. Constitution limit the ways the United States can engage in global governance? The AEI Project on Sovereignty will explore the effects of globalization on international law, institutions and the Constitution. 

In the next American Enterprise Debate, Grover Norquist, founder of Americans for Tax Reform, will argue that the Taxpayer Protection Pledge is an effective bulwark against tax increases. New York Times columnist Ross Douthat will counter with his claim that the tax pledge has created political gridlock that threatens to derail serious tax reform and deficit reduction.

The "Pledge to America" released by House Republicans last week is a list of cautious and moderate policies that will be extraordinarily hard for sinking Democrats to snipe at, but it also sacrifices the mandate that the Tea Party movement could have provided for more ambitious proposals.

Here is another good news/bad news column about the 112th Congress.

Despite Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's pledge to move quickly, the implementation of the Dodd-Frank legislation will take considerable time and leave a pall of uncertainty hanging over business decisions.

The Romney 4 percent Pentagon budget is no “spike”; it’s more like a return to normal, even very constrained military spending given the global mission of America’s armed forces.

John Kerry is right that there was a mysterious 13th member at the table who caused the supercommittee to fail. But it wasn’t Norquist. It was Occupy Wall Street.