Review of Reagan's Path to Victory, edited by Kiron K. Skinner, Anderson, and Anderson.

Review of Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11, by Thomas L. Friedman.

The Obama budget is already being ripped by Republicans as a political document and by deficit hawks for its failure to attack the debt problem vigorously enough. But in context, it is worth a brief comparison to the Romney and Santorum visions.

While many of the GOP candidates are pundit-candidates and overexposed, all of them are united on core economic and policy issues, and to make Obama a one-term president.

Herman Cain still has significant liabilities as a candidate and could make a disqualifying mistake any time. But he's beginning to look like a contender.

China and Russia have decided to renounce the U.S. dollar and want to use their own currencies for bilateral trade in an attempt to lodge a complaint about its mismanagement.

In the debt-limit negotiations, Mitch McConnell's plan might be the least bad of the currently possible options. But what's particularly frustrating is how McConnell is selling his proposal.

In the United States and in Great Britain, parties that had previously enjoyed success with a center-left "third way" are now in trouble with voters as they have moved well to the left.