The President’s Men
Meet the men and women who will run America’s foreign policy.
Meet the men and women who will run America’s foreign policy.
While the revelations of “Climategate” are still making headlines and world leaders meet in Copenhagen to discuss global warming, slowly but steadily more and more commentators are questioning the dubious qualities of environmentalism. Indeed, some are comparing it outright to totalitarian ideologies of the past. Charles Krauthammer, writing for The Washington Post, quoted Czech president […]
South Dakota Senator John Thune may be charming and attractive but he currently lacks presidential vision.
Ayn Rand is having a mainstream moment but social conservatives are still averse to her philosophy.
Writing in July 2008, retired United States Army General Barry McCaffrey, a Gulf War veteran and critic of the initial American strategy in Iraq, assessed the war in Afghanistan and concluded the following. “Afghanistan is in misery.” Life expectancy is low and violence and crime are rampant. At the time, McCaffrey expected Afghan governance to […]
The White House announces plans to work toward a form of “collaborative democracy”.
Fears of Barack Obama neglecting Europe in favor of the Far East seem exaggerated.
The American president outlines his vision for a world at peace.
China is highly unlikely to achieve naval parity with the United States for another forty years.
After conferring for two days in Brussels the foreign ministers of the European Union called for “the urgent resumption of negotiations that will lead […] to a two-state solution with the State of Israel and an independent, democratic, contiguous and viable State of Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.” With a soon-to-be-appointed […]
Japan succumbed to recession after years of high public spending and stagnation.
Republican opposition to health-care reform reminded Harry Reid to legislators who “belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery.”
The suffering of the 24 million people who live under North Korea’s Stalinist dictatorship is often overlooked.
In the tar pit that is South Asia, there is only one stable democracy. It is also an emerging superpower.
Obstacles to European defense cooperation are numerous and unlikely to be overcome.