A creator of "compassionate" conservatism isattacking the small-government ideal--and inadvertently highlighting America"s need to learn from Europe.

Joshua Muravchik reviews Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks's It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States and Maurice Isserman's The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington.

Sunday’s elections results in six European countries, particularly France, Greece and Germany, bode poorly for satisfactorily resolving the European Union’s ongoing financial and political crisis.

The urgent threat posed by the growing Iran/Hezbollah network in Latin America finally captured the attention of a national audience Tuesday evening as several GOP presidential candidates acknowledged the problem in an AEI-Heritage Foundation debate that aired on CNN. AEI’s Venezuela-Iran project has documented this growing problem.

Health care policy and health care reform are back in the news in a big way. The Supreme Court is poised to hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of the 2010 health care overhaul. The Obama administration has just released guidelines for the operation of the state-based insurance exchanges that are the backbone of the law.

A clear majority of French citizens believe this is all a conspiracy. Yet every day, it becomes ever more clear that the French--particularly the French socialists who counted DSK as their leader--turned a blind eye to the man's ever more risky and appalling behavior.

This issue of Political Report covers the effects of the recession, the Supreme Court, immigration and Arizona's new law, and more.