When Americans walk away, Europe tends to fail. The Americans walked away during the Bush and Obama years, and the consequences of that withdrawal are becoming apparent.

President Obama is in Havana today because not even the Castro brothers can cling any longer to the pretense that, somehow, socialism can solve the problems of Latin America.

The biggest story in America today is the roaring return of Andrew Jackson’s spirit into the political debate.

An attack on an Indian air force base was aimed at scotching any prospect that Indo-Pakistani relations would actually improve.

Most of the public is no longer listening to President Obama on national security. He needs a better strategy for describing and defending his policies to the American people.

All the conditions for a new golden age seem to be present, and in many ways we are in a golden age of opera performance, but there is nothing like a golden age of operatic appreciation among the people at large.

How do the Clintons, dogged by scandal and suspicion at every turn, not just stay afloat in American political life, but thrive?

It certainly contains some attractive features from an Iranian perspective.

President Obama seems determined to do an end-run around Congress by taking the Iran deal to the UN first. This is undoubtedly the wrong way to proceed.

If there is one thing that the history of South Carolina may have to teach the rest of the country it is this: that nothing is more exceptional about American history than the way that the African American church has helped make us a nation that is better, happier, and more united than we have any right to expect.