Federalist Nos. 67-77 offer a strong defense of the 'energetic executive" embedded in the new constitution, which is best captured in…
Looking out the airplane window at a white winter landscape in Oslo yesterday, I thought back to another flight. Several years ago, a U.N.…
The true victors of the Cold War were visionaries like Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa, and Yeltsin as well as the peoples of Eastern Europe. But…
This month, after nearly nine years, the American war in Iraq is finally drawing to a close. At its peak, 170,000 Americans were stationed…
Barney Frank’s impending exit from Congress is a milestone not just for him, but also for the remarkable set of civic leaders who came of…
Not long ago, many pundits agreed that the Republican nomination was Mitt Romney's to lose. Now, with one recent poll showing Gingrich up a…
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The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill highlighted the glaring weaknesses in the current liability and regulatory regime for oil spills and for…
Catastrophic risks differ in terms of their natural or human origins, their possible amplification by human behaviors, and the…
There is a lot of enthusiasm for the GOP presidential debate tonight. It’s on CNN at 8pm. The topic: National security and foreign policy…
For two years, Europe’s political, business, and press elites have produced disastrous diagnoses and even more disastrous prescriptions for…