On a variety of indicators, President Obama has far more in common with incumbent presidents who lost their bid for reelection than with those who won.

I can't remember a more stunning rebuke of a president by a congressional leader than Speaker John Boehner's refusal to agree to Barack Obama's demand that he summon a joint session of Congress to hear the president's latest speech on the economy. It illustrates several of the weaknesses of this presidency.

The very title of Aaron Friedberg's book will stir controversy among those who believe devoutly in China's "peaceful rise" as a global "responsible stakeholder." This book is a judicious, measured assessment of the stakes between China and the United States over the next several decades.

The South China Sea row highlights how much influence ASEAN has lost compared with Beijing.

Barack Obama’s presidency has had profoundly negative consequences for our national security. From debilitating cuts in defense budgets, to gutting national missile defense efforts, to his unwillingness to acknowledge a continuing war against terrorism, to his inability to stem the nuclear proliferation threats posed by North Korea and Iran....the picture is bleak.

By decade’s end, the United States will be spending more to service its debt annually than on national defense.

Submission is a central theme in the Muslim religion, so certain things need to change drastically if Egypt does not want their new regime to morph into a dictator as well.

Wolfgang Münchau seems to be wide of the mark in asserting that the present global financial crisis will lead to the early expansion of the eurozone.