It is quite telling that if President Obama had to construct a strategy for defeat, it would not differ from what he and his aides describe as America’s way forward.

The Republican presidential candidates, except for Ron Paul, haven’t been paying much attention to young voters in the primaries and caucuses so far. But any Republican nominee — which is to say, probably Mitt Romney, or maybe Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum — had better be paying attention to them in the summer and fall.

Almost everything you hear at graduations - and read on the internet, and watch on television - focuses on the idea of work, especially entrepreneurship, as a means of self-expression and (to use the term from David Brooks) self-actualization.

The failure of South Ossetia’s presidential election and the popularity of Alla Dzhioyeva are indicative of broader trends that have significant, largely favorable consequences for the U.S.

If the CIA “deniers” won’t accept the word of the former vice president, and the four CIA directors who have testified that CIA interrogations produced invaluable intelligence, perhaps they will believe WikiLeaks.

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.

Detroit lost 25% of its population in a single decade--a decline second only to hurricane-devastated New Orleans.