I learned to appreciate the American free enterprise system by quitting a job in Spain.At age 19, I dropped out of school to pursue a career as a French horn player. After a few twists and turns, I wound up in the Barcelona Symphony, which was a Spanish...

Facebook Inc. took a momentous action last week. And I don’t mean its announced intention to sell shares for $28 to $35 in an initial public offering later this month.

On Monday, President Obama will sit down with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. With a showdown looming over Iran, their summit will not only be the most important meeting for either leader but it may also be the most consequential meeting for the entire Middle East since Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s 1993 handshake with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat.

Calls for an accelerated withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan demonstrate a profound misunderstanding of the relationship between our efforts in Afghanistan and our success in Pakistan, as well as of the inseparability of effective "counter-terrorism" operations from the counter-insurgency strategy President Obama announced in December 2009.

Inspired by the Pakistani role model, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is transforming Iran into a military dictatorship, where the IRGC is not only constitutionally tasked with "safeguarding the revolution and its achievements," but also rules Iran.

Why aren't voters moving to the left, toward parties favoring bigger government, during what increasingly looks like an economic depression? Ordinary Americans don't want money as much as they want honor.

For at least four decades Colombia has been synonymous with the costly war against narcotics. But a different kind of drug war brought me to Bogotá - the fight against counterfeit and substandard pharmaceuticals.

President Obama recently expressed enthusiasm for aggressive offshore drilling--in Brazil. His energy "blueprint" will get no further than all previous presidential schemes because it is unserious at its core.