The recent move by 100 Kansas Republican leaders to endorse GOP Governor Sam Brownback’s Democratic opponent seems like a rebuke of the national GOP’s priorities. But factors unique to Kansas may make it hard to extrapolate any national lessons.

New accounts of parents being punished for leaving their children unattended are rightly drawing ire from observers across the political spectrum. The child welfare bureaucracy has been growing stronger for quite some time, and now has the power to remove children from their families more easily than you might think.

Some of the Navy’s most useful logistics ships may soon be decommissioned on account of budget cuts. This isn’t the way for the U.S. to maintain its edge over China and other revisionist powers.

China’s removal of an oil rig from waters disputed by Vietnam is unlikely to signal that tensions are easing in the South China Sea.

A Canadian convert to Islam who died fighting in Syria is the ‘star’ of ISIS’ newest recruiting video. What happens when the 3,000 or more Western jihadists in Syria decide to come home?

American oil production is booming, thanks to shale, and this new supply is helping to offset disruptions abroad. Fracking is averting an international oil crisis.

Senate Democrats are opposing changes to a 2008 immigration law that has been fueling the nightmarish scenario unfolding on our borders.

While other items on President Obama’s foreign policy agenda have come and gone, his drive to coming to some kind of agreement with Iran over nuclear weapons has been remarkably consistent. But has the White House carefully considered the strategic consequences of “success”?

Over one hundred Kansas Republican leaders have endorsed Gov. Brownback’s Democratic opponent. The political costs of Brownback’s policies may be his undoing.

Favorable weather should lead to a “big surge” in production from North Dakota’s Bakken shale formation. This is the energy revolution that keeps on giving.