The recent election outcomes significantly changed the political leadership of France and Greece - American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Scholars Desmond Lachman and Danielle Pletka are available to comment on their economic and foreign policy implications.

Mitt Romney handed President Obama a political gift this weekend, when his campaign announced that he would not file his tax return on time. Romney made the announcement at 5 p.m. on Friday — the time politicians usually put out bad news they hope no one will notice. Team Obama noticed all right

"If we could just take a little bit from each of them."

President Obama is reportedly gearing up to "kill" Mitt Romney in the general election. He may not get the chance. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who entered the presidential race Saturday, gets to take the first shot at the GOP front-runner-and if history is any indication, Romney won't know what hit him.

This event was the fourth installment of AEI's series, Politics Watch.

Well worth reading, John Lewis Gaddis' biography of George Kennan nonetheless raises the basic question of whether Kennan’s concrete contributions justify the many accolades he has received.

President Obama says that he has "complete confidence" in Attorney General Eric Holder. That's good news for Republicans. Pick almost any unnecessary, losing battle in Obama's first term, and his hapless attorney general is at the center of it.

The temptation to declare victory in the "global war on terror" is, a decade after 9/11, very strong. But Osama bin Laden was only a part of the problem of the "greater Middle East," and the so-called "Long War" will continue.