Tehran ups the ante again as diplomacy goes nowhere.
Nov 29, 2009
Mohamed ElBaradei caps his contentious and ultimately failed 12-year stint as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency today, having spent many years enabling Iran’s nuclear bids only to condemn them in his final days in office. Mr. ElBaradei combined his rebuke of Iran [...]

Sunday’s vote keeps European heads in the sand about Muslim immigrants.
Nov 30, 2009

Nearly 58% of Swiss voters Sunday cast their ballots in favor of banning the construction of new minarets in the Alpine republic, a surprise result that led at least one Swiss member of parliament to declare that “the foundations of Switzerland’s direct democracy [...]

More than just a dissident, he is a symbol of China’s democratic aspirations.
Nov 29, 2009

Next week marks two anniversaries for China: one year since dissident Liu Xiaobo disappeared into the maw of the state-security apparatus, and one year since the manifesto for political reform he helped draft, Charter 08, was made public. As the country’s [...]

Labor strips workers of financial guidance.
Nov 29, 2009

With very little media or public attention, the Obama Administration recently suspended a Bush-era rule to let employees get financial guidance from the advisers managing their 401(k) investments. The provision was designed to give average investors access to the kind of personal financial advice that is typically a [...]

A foreign policy of penance has won America no friends.
Nov 29, 2009
By FOUAD AJAMI
‘He talks too much,” a Saudi academic in Jeddah, who had once been smitten with Barack Obama, recently observed to me of America’s 44th president. He has wearied of Mr. Obama and now does not bother with the Obama oratory.
He is hardly [...]

The tiny country beats back the colonial aspirations of its neighbors.
Nov 29, 2009
By Mary Anistasia O’Grady
Unless something monumental happens in the Western Hemisphere in the next 31 days, the big regional story for 2009 will be how tiny Honduras managed to beat back the colonial aspirations of its most powerful neighbors and preserve its constitution.

Yesterday’s [...]

The panic over its debt problem tells us more about investors than it does about the emirate.
Nov 29, 2009

By ZACHARY KARABELL
Global markets sank sharply at the end of last week on fears that Dubai World, a subsidiary of the government of Dubai, was on the verge of defaulting on approximately $60 billion of the emirate’s [...]

Nepal’s poor have more pressing problems.
Nov 29, 2009
By BJøRN LOMBORG

Global warming has captured the attention of politicians around the world. The following article is part of a series leading up to the December United Nations conference in Copenhagen on how ordinary people in different countries view the issue:

Nine years ago, Maya Bishwokarma moved with her [...]

November 29, 2009

 
by Ken Connor
In anticipation of Senate Democrats’ introduction of an $849 billion dollar plan to overhaul the nation’s health care system, Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn last week announced his intention to press for a full reading of the 2,074 page bill on the floor of the Senate, a process estimated to require between [...]

November 30, 2009

 
by Star Parker

“The Blind Side” is a beautiful new film based on a magnificent and heartwarming true story.
But I hope that the many who see it do not simply walk out all aglow. It should also produce concern.
This story about hopelessness transformed into achievement should be a typically American story. We should be [...]