In our second debate, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former chief economic policy adviser to Senator John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, delivers a critique of the Federal Reserve's second round of quantitative easing, and John H. Makin, resident scholar in economics at AEI, counters in support of QE2 and the role monetary policy...

The widely acclaimed American Enterprise Debates returns with another big question for our times: how much quantitative easing is too much?

Today's attack indicates that the policy of appeasing the Taliban has failed. Diplomatic engagement with the Taliban will not produce any results until the terrorist group is defeated militarily. One-sided engagement policy is not an exit strategy but a recipe for failure.

Why aren't voters moving to the left, toward parties favoring bigger government, during what increasingly looks like an economic depression? Ordinary Americans don't want money as much as they want honor.

After two terms of the Bush presidency, the Republican Party faces severe political and policy challenges. Despite a divisive Democratic presidential nomination contest, the GOP’s presumptive nominee is struggling to compete for funds and votes. The outlook in Congress is worse. Since losing majorities in both chambers in 2006, the...

Diplomacy can never supplant the importance of military victory. Obama may want to bring the troops home, but the diplomacy-first strategy hampers peace. As the history of drinking tea with the Taliban shows, talk is not only cheap; it is deadly.

While I agree that there's no question that America's ability to field a military second to none depends on our economic fundamentals, the position of "superpower" seems to me a bit more complex.

For the first time since 1988, when the late King Hussein of Jordan officially ceded Jordanian claims to the West Bank, Palestinians and Jordanians are engaging in serious discussion about their mutual interest for stability in the West Bank.

With an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank possible, influential Palestinians...