For years the rap on summits, including Ronald Reagan's summits, was that they played to Soviet priorities in arms control and neglected the fundamental American interest in containing Soviet expansionism, taming Soviet global conduct and easing regional conflicts. One still hears this sort of...

Despite the prominence of Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland in the early American canon, its prequel, "Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist," has received little critical attention.(1) Yet the fragment, whose serialization was contemporaneous with the Louisiana Purchase, significantly re-frames the domestic crisis of Brown's...

And while we're on the subject of Iraq... Virginia's former governor, Mark Warner, has been on the faux-campaign trail for '08 for some time now, and talked a couple of nights ago at a DL21C event -- part of the group's 'Eye on 2008' Speaker...

Pope Benedict XVI is heading to the world's most populous Roman Catholic country at time when evangelical Christians are packing converted storefronts and cavernous churches every Sunday, thrusting their Bibles in the air.Benedict will try to halt that wave of Protestant fervor during his first...

Essay discusses the aspect of the United States taking control of territories such as Hawaii, Cuba, and Panama.