A world without faith in God would not be a more rational or more humane place.

There’s a great deal of long-term friction in the alliance between Iran and Russia—but oil could grease the wheels.

The following is written testimony delivered to the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services on October 22, 2015.

Rent-seeking is so entrenched in many developing economies that nothing short of a wholesale revolution could change the their stagnant status quo.

Taiwan appears poised for a more anti-China government. But the U.S. will stick with the “one China, no drama” policy that goes back to the Nixon administration.

When we find evidence that dirty money from China has been used in a corruption scheme aimed at subverting institutions outside of China, the hammer needs to come down, hard.

The American people are still caught in the transition between two different retirement systems. That needs to change, and it will.

Jihadism in Africa, like Ebola in Africa, isn’t just a local issue. It requires an international response.

The failure in Syria is driving former Obama appointees to express their dissent publicly, while current and former officials leak even more criticism anonymously.

Amnesty accuses Kurds of war crimes. These are the demons that have been unleashed in the Middle East.