NSA activities key to terrorism fight
Congress is poised to decide whether to re-authorize programs run by the National Security Agency that assess patterns of domestic...
John Bolton
Another Rogue-State Smuggling Route Is Revealed
Panama's interdiction last week of a North Korean freighter bearing cargo from Cuba should open President Obama's eyes. The seizure's...
How to make Egypt safe for democracy
Hosni Mubarak's resignation as president of Egypt, after thirty years of authoritarian rule, is a major seismic event in the...
The illusory verification gap
President Obama and a fellow Democrat, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, are demanding that the Senate ratify the New START...
The threat south of the border: Mexico’s drug war endangers US interests
Mexico today increasingly resembles Colombia 25 years ago. Drug cartels are strengthening rapidly, Mexico's governmental authority and legitimacy are weakening...
Get ready for a nuclear Iran
Negotiations grind on toward a fourth U.N. Security Council sanctions resolution against Iran's nuclear weapons program, even as President Mahmoud...
Little to celebrate
Although President Obama spent much of his first year in office trying to revolutionize the U.S. health care system, the...
Obama’s big UN adventure
President Obama's upcoming visit to the 64th UN General Assembly, which opened yesterday, will be nothing if not entertaining. Substantively,...
Clinton’s unwise trip to North Korea
The Obama administration characterized Bill Clinton's unexpected visit to Pyongyang to secure the release of two American reporters, held unjustifiably...
What if Israel strikes Iran?
Whatever the outcome of Iran's presidential election tomorrow, negotiations will not soon -- if ever -- put an end to...
Obama’s prosecutions by proxy
President Obama's passivity before the threatened foreign prosecution of Bush administration officials achieves by inaction what he fears doing directly....
Obama’s North Korea reaction: more talks
Prior to North Korea's launch yesterday of a Taepodong-2 ballistic missile, President Barack Obama declared that such an action would...
The coming war on sovereignty
Barack Obama's nascent presidency has brought forth the customary flood of policy proposals from the great and good, all hoping...