I did a little interview with Mary Kissel of the Wall Street Journal, following up on thursday's oped. Mary is, as you can tell, a well-informed interviewer and asks some tough questions.
David Sanger reported over the weekend that “the United States and China are negotiating what could become the first arms control accord for cyberspace, embracing a commitment by each country that it will not be the first to use cyberweapons to cripple the other’s critical infrastructure during peacetime.
Vladimir Putin’s military operations have stretched Moscow’s military to its limits. Russia has mobilized forces from all parts of the Russian Federation for its southeast Ukraine operations.
In the politics of the Information Age, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Carly Fiorina’s strong debate performance this past week is the stuff of instant gratification.
My Hoover Institution colleague Kori Schake wrote about last Wednesday’s GOP debate that, when it comes to foreign policy, the contenders still have a lot to learn. The same is true about vaccines and vaccination policy.
Terror strikes at the heart of anyone who faces a wall of fast-moving fire. Last week’s Northern California Butte and Valley fires remind everyone of the fear and destruction that follows any raging blaze, regardless of how it starts.
Four years ago, when the then latest issue of Economic Freedom of the World was published, I wrote a post titled "We're Number 10! We're Number 10!" The reason: according to the study, the United States had fallen to 10th in the world in economic freedom.
Our culture minister is a man who can’t quite bring himself to believe that Muslims can be proper Indians.Our culture minister is a man who can’t quite bring himself to believe that Muslims can be proper Indians.
In 1973 Jean Raspail published an apocalyptic novel entitled The Camp of the Saints. It was a story depicting the destruction of Western civilization, which began innocently enough with the Belgian government announcing in Calcutta, India, a policy of adopting Indian babies and raising them in Belgium.
As I write, guards are using water cannons and tear gas to turn back Middle Eastern migrants and refugees storming Hungary’s border. The media are on the side of the migrants. History sympathizes with the Hungarians.
Former U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry says President Barack Obama should visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki “not to apologize” but to use the experience of being at ground zero of the 1945 atomic bombings as a “vehicle” for getting his message across on the inhumanity of nuclear weapons.
Any postmortem of Russia's recent regional elections should begin with hearty and sincere praise for those in the opposition who had the courage and invested the time necessary to run, and worked to support campaigns and protect the vote.
There have been plenty of postmortems on the Republican presidential debate last week. But before the debate fades further into history, at least one of the issues the candidates touched upon deserves deeper background.
On the same June 2012 Election Day, California's second- and third-largest cities -- chic beachfront San Diego and high-tech hub San Jose -- made national headlines when voters overwhelmingly approved sweeping measures to trim municipal retirement benefits whose mounting costs were devouring their budgets.
To the Democratic candidates, the 2016 presidential campaign is about shrinking the gap between rich and poor; combating climate change; and expanding voting rights, gay rights and workplace equality for women.
The past several decades have witnessed unprecedented levels of global growth and a mass exodus of people out of chronic poverty: poverty rates have been cut by more than half since 1990; child mortality rates have fallen by more than 30 percent since 2000; and new HIV infections declined by 38 percent between 2001 and 2013.
The California Republican Party’s adoption of a more moderate plank on immigration Sunday marked a step forward in the party’s long, mostly fruitless effort to draw more Latino voters into its fold.
Friday afternoon announcements in Washington are usually aimed at attracting as little attention as possible, but last Friday was different. President Obama’s decision to nominate Eric Fanning — an openly gay man — to head a branch of the military which only four years ago did not allow gays and lesbians to serve openly, was both historic and attention-grabbing.
All this week, people anxiously awaited results from the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington, D.C. Though many expected the FOMC would decide to finally raise interest rates and begin to normalize monetary policy, on Thursday it was announced that rates would remain near zero.
This is a remarkable book. David Milne, a professor at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom, scrutinizes the work of nine Americans who, beginning in the late 19th century, shaped their country’s relationship with the rest of the world.
The latest victim of rising anti-Americanism in Russia is the American Center in Russia, which now appears to be at the center of a renewed push by the Russian authorities to reduce American influence within the nation.
