The past two weeks of turmoil and drama in Sino-American affairs may well be the new normal, not an exception to an otherwise placid bilateral relationship. While Friday brought news of a possible deal allowing dissident Chen Guangcheng to leave China to study in America, that deal is no more certain than the earlier, failed deal, announced just days before

Make no mistake: as defense budgets go down, so does America’s capacity to give its men and women in uniform the tools they need to defend our interests abroad—as well as our ability to sustain the world-class scientists, engineers, designers, and machinists that comprise our defense manufacturing industrial base. The military deserves better than this budget, and so does America.

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A study of recent investment flows says that being a democracy may actually make it harder for a developing country to attract capital from abroad.

The idea that the government can create jobs on net in the economy is a myth, and painting the myth green makes it no less of a myth.

Amnesty’s call for Bush’s arrest was a blatantly partisan act — and it wasn’t the first time the group had done so.

The wind industry is lobbying for even more government support, but much of the government funding has gone overseas.