Here’s the problem: The president never defines what he means by “fair.” And this is for a simple reason: his definition is simply not recognizable to most Americans.

If fairness means that two people who commit the same crime should expect the same penalty, the current system is not merely unfair, it is unconscionable.

The recent simultaneous negotiations on opposite sides of the globe between Israel and the PLO on one hand, and Taiwan and mainland China on the other demonstrate a major inconsistency in American diplomacy. Because neither encounter resulted in new or definitive agreements, we can expect the inconsistency to persist for...

The Clinton administration's inclination to side against America’s friends in disputes with their adversaries is clear in the administration’s disdainful diplomacy towardTaiwan.

The Occupiers are right about American incomes: They've definitely grown more unequal. But this fact presents three inconvenient truths for the Occupy Wall Street movement.

More than three decades after the Revolution of 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran Army and the IRGC remain entangled in a rivalry which the Army — should the hitherto trend continue — is bound to lose.

But the mere existence of income inequality tells us little about what, if anything, should be done about it.

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