Earlier this month, I said that the Congressional Republican leadership was lacking in credibility on fiscal and economic policy, because so many of them were tainted by very public support for the former administration’s financial sector bailout...

Even though I haven’t had much to contribute to their fine efforts in quite a while, I wanted to offer a rather belated wish of congratulations to the people at Front Porch Republic on the occasion of their one-year anniversary. One thing that becomes...

There are many things one might say about the Vice President’s speech at Tel Aviv University, but one of his remarks jumped out at me as being so obviously false that I have to wonder why he said it. Biden said: Looming over all our efforts in this...

Count me as a skeptic whenever administration allies begin claiming that the White House is guided by ideas derived from Catholic social thought, or indeed from any form of theological reflection. Via Kevin Sullivan and Laura Rozen comes this report...

Greg Scoblete and Andrew address why Palestinians receive so much more attention when there are people in other parts of the world who suffer far more. As far as American attention is concerned, I think they are right that U.S. financial and...

As usual, Nikolas Gvosdev has written an excellent analysis of the foreign and economic policy divergences between emerging-market democracies and the leading European and North American democracies. (Via Kevin Sullivan) Gvosdev makes many of the...