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FEATURED COMMENTARY POST
The threat south of the border: Mexico's drug war endangers U.S. interests. Obama must wake up.
By John Bolton October 20, 2010 @ 1:10pmClick here to read moreMexico today increasingly resembles Colombia 25 years ago. Drug cartels are strengthening rapidly, Mexico's governmental authority and legitimacy are weakening and the people are deeply divided over how to respond to the cartels' challenge to Mexico's civil society.
The stakes for the United States were high in Colombia back then, but they are even higher now in Mexico.
The drug cartel threat ha…
The Rules of the Game and Economic Recovery
By Imprimis Hillsdale College October 19, 2010 @ 12:26pmClick here to read more
Amity Shlaes
Author, The Forgotten Man:
A New History of the Great Depression
AMITY SHLAES is a syndicated columnist for Bloomberg and a senior fellow in economic history at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is a graduate of Yale University and pursued postgraduate studies at the Free University in Berlin. She has served as a member of the editorial board of the Wa…
Statesmanship and the GOP
By John Bolton October 18, 2010 @ 10:14amClick here to read moreColin Dueck’s thorough analysis of the foreign-policy views of Republican political leaders since World War II has two aspects. As history, it is informative, objective, and broadly useful. As political science, however — and typical of that academic discipline as a whole — it obscures more than it reveals.
Fortunately, the reader can focus on Dueck’s history. He presents a careful, detailed polic…
Crisis point dead ahead
By John Bolton September 28, 2010 @ 9:02amClick here to read more
''Ticking time bomb" is the entirely accurate way Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recently described Sudan. There is every indication the country is nearing a breakup, almost certainly into its northern and southern halves, and perhaps additional fragments. The central question is not if dissolution will occur, but whether it will proceed relatively peacefully or whether renewed military conflict inside Sudan is i…
The Chavez threat
By John Bolton September 17, 2010 @ 12:46pmClick here to read moreVenezuela's Sept. 26 national parliamentary elections present a major opportunity for strongman Hugo Chavez to cement his grip on power. Despite a tradition of a free press and competitive politics, a cosmopolitan elite and extensive natural resources, Venezuela is increasingly a case study in how to lose political and economic freedom.
The stakes are especially high in light of evidence consistent with an emerging…
