WASHINGTON -- Perhaps when Chinese leaders began to speak over the last several years about a new "Beijing Consensus" and the triumph of the "China Model," that was a warning the bubble was about to burst. And we're seeing that hubris play out now...

WASHINGTON -- As America begins to pull back its troops from Afghanistan, there's one consequence that gets little notice but is likely to have lasting impact: Pakistan is losing the best chance in its history to gain political control over all of...

WASHINGTON -- Let's assume the signals from the White House and Tehran are reliable, and that Iran is serious about an agreement to remove its existing stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium from the country and stop producing more. What happens...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama begins his re-election campaign with something almost nobody would have predicted four years ago: a sense of success and political advantage in the foreign-policy areas that have often spelled trouble for ...

WASHINGTON -- Whenever the CIA uncovers a new plot overseas, like al-Qaeda's latest scheme to blow up civilian aircraft using advanced, hard-to-detect explosives, people breathe a sigh of relief. But this is a multifront war, and almost by ...

WASHINGTON -- With so much talk these days of America's decline, it may sound strange to ponder the prospects for an American economic boom a decade or so from now. But that's the thrust of two new studies, which have me thinking like Dr. Pangloss...