Yet his meetings with America’s top leaders, from President Obama on down, will be just as much a chance for Xi to size up the administration’s new policies toward Asia as they are an opportunity for U.S. officials to get a sense of whom they will be dealing with starting this fall.

"Steady as she goes" seems to be the mantra of the Noda administration in Japan after the death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il.

A charismatic envoy's sudden downfall is the chance for Washington to move from engagement with Islamabad to containment.

The problem is that–as is plain to see – the Obama administration is not planning what Clinton describes as a strategic "pivot" from the Middle East to the Asia Pacific. It’s just retreating from the Middle East and reducing the U.S. military.

The candidates must address the reset in a foreign policy debate. Is it good policy, bad policy, or—as this author argues—is there less to the reset than meets the eye?

One of the annual rituals of Washington's health policy calendar involves the release of projections for the next ten years of national health spending. It then is followed immediately by desperate efforts by various interest groups and advocacy "analysts" to spin the new numbers to their advantage.

Barack Obama’s presidency has had profoundly negative consequences for our national security. From debilitating cuts in defense budgets, to gutting national missile defense efforts, to his unwillingness to acknowledge a continuing war against terrorism, to his inability to stem the nuclear proliferation threats posed by North Korea and Iran....the picture is bleak.

I said it three months ago, and I’ll say it again: It’s high time for a reset on healthcare reform. Four things have happened since last November’s election that reinforce the wisdom of doing so.