The ham-handed Barack Obama campaign attack ads on Mitt Romney's former firm Bain Capital have drawn a lot of ire from other Democrats.

America's version of capitalism has been much more dynamic than Europe's. Why don't Obama and Romney debate that?

Rick Santorum announced Tuesday that he is suspending his presidential campaign, leaving Mitt Romney to wrap up the Republican nomination to take on President Obama despite still having GOP hopefuls Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul in the race.

On Tuesday, May 15, join the American Enterprise Institute, the Center for a New American Security and the New America Foundation to discuss an issue sure to face the next president: U.S. defense spending in light of American grand strategy.

In a unique collaboration, the American Enterprise Institute, the Center for a New American Security and the New America Foundation are pleased to invite you to the next event in the "Election 2012: The National Security Agenda" series in this presidential campaign season.

Last week I wrote about the standings in the presidential race and said it looked like a long, hard slog through about a dozen clearly identified target states, much like the contests in 2000 and 2004. Call it the 2000/2004 long, hard slog scenario.

Nothing about an election is harder to predict than turnout, and experience shows that the balance of enthusiasm can change abruptly and in unpredicted ways.

The 1800 presidential contest, one of the most spirited in our nation's history, is the subject of Edward Larson's book A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign (Free Press, 2007). Pulitzer Prize winner Larson, now the Hugh & Hazel Darling Professor of Law at Pepperdine,...