Several states have recently shown that they can save on costs without compromising public safety by intelligently reducing their prison populations.

The United States has reportedly offered a plea deal to Majid Khan — a hardened al-Qaeda terrorist and close associate of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — that could see him released from Guantanamo Bay within a few years.

Giving this killer a reduced sentence is outrageous. Khan is no run-of-the-mill terrorist. He...

Fred Siegel delivered the December 2011 Bradley Lecture at AEI.

Riots are fascinating things. How lawless greed, cruelty, and violence suddenly set fire to the minds of men is one of the most mysterious, almost magical (though not in the positive sense) manifestations of human behavior. Already, on both sides of the Atlantic, lots of people are sure they know why England is burning.

The reintegration of prisoners released from jail into society reveals a double standard.

The problem today is not simply that America is no longer waterboarding the Khalid Skeikh Mohammeds of the world; it is that, outside the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq, we are no longer capturing, detaining, and interrogating the Khalid Sheikh Mohammeds of the world at all.

We should praise the Obama administration, the CIA and especially our armed forces for the operation that killed Osama bin Laden. But we should not forget what made the operation possible: President Bush's counterterrorism policies.

2012 may well be the year that India's economy returns to a familiar place—as an Asian laggard overshadowed by its East Asian peers and largely ignored by the rest of the world.