Americas Archives

Constant congressional criticism of the CIA undermines the agency’s ability to produce reliable intelligence and puts the nation’s safety at great risk.

Dick Cheney is spoiling for a fight. Eric Holder’s decision to investigate the CIA has given the former veep a platform to argue that President Obama doesn’t understand terrorism and can’t keep America safe.

Scholars of international relations have only recently begun to appreciate the power of religion. Their next step is to get religion right. No longer mysterious and magical, modernity has demystified the Higher Power.

The hope that we might one day rid the world of nuclear weapons is as old as the technology itself. Atomic destruction has always seemed too great a risk to bear. Yet a nuclear-free world is nothing but a dream—world government, a Praetorian Guard

The Honduran crisis is none of our business and of little importance to American interests. Why is Washington intervening?

Instead of spouting platitudes, Obama should have pressed Canada and Mexico for closer cooperation on drugs, energy and trade at the Guadalajara summit.

Why not invite the Russian submariners over for a drink?