Generally, campaign press releases are unrelenting twaddle. But Romney put out a decent one today… better, frankly, than his not-too-dramatic op-ed in today’s WaPo. (Really, Mitt, shipbuilding will be job one in taking on Iran?)

How do civil society organizations operate in the authoritarian environment of Vladimir Putin’s “sovereign democracy?”  To what extent are they able to further their causes despite pervasive corruption and the rule of courts that take their cues from the Kremlin?

Despite having little demonstrable interest in giving up its nuclear weapons, North Korea is once again headed for a negotiating table to do just that. That the North Koreans have been invited at all is a testament to the strange desperation of both the Obama administration and the South Korean Lee Myung-bak administration to return to the Six Party Talks.

When normal people judge what constitutes a tax increase, they compare what they will pay tomorrow to what they are paying today. If that number goes up, it's a tax increase. That is not how the Gang of Six did its tax calculations.

With China's backing, North Korea is vigorously campaigning to draw the United States into another round of "six-party talks," the multilateral deliberations on North Korean "denuclearization" first convened in 2003.

Included is American Enterprise Institute scholar Nicholas Eberstadt's latest piece entitled North Korea's Six-Party Trap.

The Obama administration's attempts to convince other countries to strengthen their currencies and the Fed's renewed bout of quantitative easing have faced staunch criticism in the United States and abroad, and have shown that the "currency wars" are far from over.

Why can't our opponents be reasonable? In his new book, “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion,” social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of morality in our rapid and automatic moral intuitions.