A victory for moderate Islam over extremism has been a key foreign policy goal for the United States since the events of September 11. The reform and modernizing of education throughout the Muslim world is a crucial building block in the battle against extremism. Teaching hatred has bolstered groups like...

Review ofElie Podeh's examination ofanti-Arab bias in Israeli textbooks.

The Federal Reserve could give banks a big incentive to expand by setting negative interest rates on their excess reserves. 

The entire Republican presidential candidate field has shared one common defect from the start; none of them talk with any serious depth about what used to be close to the center of many presidential campaigns in times of tumult: how we should interpret the Constitution.

The trade policies that President Obama outlined in his State of the Union Address undermine the strength of America's economy, and are the wrong way to react to the changing nature of trade.

Fair and balanced education in Saudi Arabia and the entireMiddle Eastwould be an important diplomatic gain for the western world.

The reality of Ben Bernanke's press conference did not live up to the hype. The discussion was dry and undramatic and could only have been torpor-inducing to anyone outside the economics profession. In the pursuit of a notion of openness, the Fed will have lost its mystique.

Most textbooks about politics try hard to cover the facts without seeking to persuade students to support or oppose any particular public policy