Outer space has become the next frontier for American national security and business. But instead of advancing American primacy in this realm, the Obama administration has wrongly decided not only to follow a European Union draft “code of conduct” regulating outer space, but also to circumvent the Senate’s central constitutional role in making treaties.

Whether the Obama administration is willing to give all assistance to Tokyo or Seoul in shooting down this missile might turn out to be the crucial element.

Immediate 23% cuts in weapons programs and military construction projects would require not just reductions in expenditures that could be ramped back up late, but wholesale cancellations of vital projects.

After the European Union’s latest crisis summit last week, international financial markets reacted cautiously. And well they should, since this umpteenth effort to save several Eurozone countries from fiscal collapse, and the common currency itself, produced mediocre results

Despite almost continuous criticism and frequent predictions of the end of capitalism, the capitalist system has spread throughout the world. Once confined to western Europe, North America, and Australasia, capitalism has become the dominant form of organization in the entire world, including Asia, Latin America, and most of the former...

In this age of ballooning U.S. debt, it’s hardly surprising that many Democrats and Republicans are pushing to reduce American military spending. But a closer examination of what’s at stake reveals just how troubling the embrace of defense austerity will prove to be.

Now that it seems a certainty that Russia is headed for (at least) 12 more years of Putinism, alarm bells ought to be sounding. Why? Because by every indicator--macroeconomic, political, social--the system that Putin forged in the early 2000s is all but exhausted and is driving the country toward a dead end.

Daniele Capezzone--an unabashed European supporter of American values and the secretary of the Italian Radical Party (Radicali italiani)--will discuss his proposal for the creation of an organization of democratic countries to support democratic movements and destabilize dictatorships. He believes that the United Nations has failed in its task, and...