Before the first presidential debate last week, President Barack Obama appeared to be cruising toward re-election and possibly a thumping…
Amid all the grandstanding about drawing a “red line” that Iran shouldn’t cross in its uranium enrichment program, a different kind of line…
In 1952, Norman Vincent Peale, a Protestant minister, published “The Power of Positive Thinking.” The book stayed on the New York Times…
Book abstract: The two-volume Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics fills a gap in scholarship on an increasingly important field within…
Book abstract: The two-volume Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics fills a gap in scholarship on an increasingly important field within…
In the French parliament’s recent debate on Europe’s new fiscal treaty, the country’s Socialist government vehemently denied that…
Next week marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis — arguably the most dangerous moment in modern history. During 13…
The cartoon of a bomb that Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu displayed two weeks ago at the UN has become a target of ridicule. Israeli…
At their conventions last month, both the Republican and Democratic parties declared that the United States is not in decline. The very…