The War on Terror

Year Three
The good news? We’re winning. The bad news? We could still lose. By Victor Davis Hanson.

If the Dead Could Talk
They’d teach us about war. By Victor Davis Hanson.

Report from Baghdad
Winning the war was easy. Winning the peace? Harder. Larry Diamond, who worked with the coalition in Baghdad last spring, explains what we have done wrong—and what we can still do right.

Russia

State of Siege
Even as he gathers power into his own hands, Vladimir Putin is failing his nation. By Michael McFaul.

Britain

The Most Unpopular Man in Britain?
Tony Blair is unpopular with the public and with his party. Why is he still in the job? By Gerald A. Dorfman.

Cuba

After Fidel
Once the island’s aging caudillo is finally gone, what will become of Cuba? An assessment by William Ratliff.

Kuwait

Kuwaiti Complexities
Is democracy possible in the Arab Middle East? Peter Berkowitz travels to Kuwait to find out.

International Relations

A World without Power
Tired of American global dominance? Just consider the alternatives. By Niall Ferguson.

Politics

What Culture Wars?
Debunking the myth of a polarized America. By Morris P. Fiorina.

Congress: Still in the Balance?
How Congress may look after the election. By David W. Brady and Jeremy C. Pope.

Door-to-Door with the GOP
When it comes to mobilizing supporters on election day, have the Republicans finally caught up to the Democrats? By Daron R. Shaw.

The Real Debt
The nation’s most serious debt problem? Not the “federal debt” but the country’s staggering future obligations to the Social Security and Medicare programs. Clark S. Judge proposes a solution.

Social Security’s Surprising Turn
Finally—some good news about Social Security. By Thomas J. Healey.

The Two-Hour Lie
What does Michael Moore’s controversial film Fahrenheit 9/11 get right? Not much. By Russell A. Berman.

Privileged Sources
As the courts seek to learn who leaked the name of a CIA agent to columnist Robert Novak, politics is trumping the law—and national security. By Robert Zelnick.

Good Odds in California
Expanding legalized gambling in California would create a huge jackpot for the state’s coffers. Governor Schwarzenegger, call your office. By Joseph D. McNamara.

Medicine

Power to the Patient
How to cure America’s beleaguered health-care system. By Scott W. Atlas.

Politics vs. Science
The case for federal funding of stem-cell research. By Elizabeth M. Whelan and Henry I. Miller.

Stem Cells: The Case for Bush’s Policy
The case against federal funding of stem-cell research. By Ramesh Ponnuru.

Education

Good Public Schools ... for the Rich
School choice is already available—unless you’re poor. By Clint Bolick.

Why Not Put Schools to the Test?
The best way to find out what’s wrong with America’s schools? Test them. By Bill Evers and Herbert J. Walberg.

Economics

Win-Win
Sure, Bill Gates is rich. But his employees aren’t doing so badly either, now, are they? By Richard A. Epstein.

Welfare

The Cost of Care
Republicans and Democrats in the Senate have been pushing to spend billions more on child care. But is more federal money the only—or best—solution? By Jeffrey M. Jones.

Race

Affirmative Action around the World
Thomas Sowell recently concluded a study of affirmative action programs around the world, from India and Malaysia to Nigeria and the United States. His findings? Such programs have at best a negligible impact on the groups they are intended to assist.

Profile: Thomas Sowell

The Economist
“As an expositor of economic principles and their application to the policies of our day, Thomas Sowell has no rival.” By Tom Bethell.

History and Culture

His Place in History
Reflections on the life—and legacy—of Ronald Reagan. By Martin Anderson.

Reaganomics
How Ronald Reagan’s presidency forever changed the way we think about the role of government. By Jeffrey A. Eisenach and James C. Miller III.

Roosevelt’s Failure at Yalta
At an old tsarist resort almost 60 years ago, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met Joseph Stalin to determine the fate of post-war Europe. Roosevelt, argues Arnold Beichman, misread Stalin—and proved naive about communism itself.

Hoover Archives

Remembering the Warsaw Uprising
Sixty years later, a look back at the longest and bloodiest urban insurgency of the Second World War. By Maciej Siekierski.