Gary J. Schmitt is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he serves as the co-director of the Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies and the director of the Program on American Citizenship.
On January 23, 1980, Jimmy Carter delivered his final State of the Union address. It was a difficult time: Iran held American diplomats captive, and the Soviet Union had just ...
When King Solomon was faced with settling a dispute between two women over who was the actual mother of a baby, his initial decision was that the baby should be ...
It’s graduation time for America’s high-school seniors, many of whom are now old enough to vote. But if the most recent evaluation of what they know about their country’s history ...
It has become a Washington commonplace that the federal government’s fiscal problems increasingly are becoming a strategic problem for the United States. “The most significant threat to our national security ...
Deterring China’s attempt to coerce Taiwan into unification with the mainland through military force has been United States policy for five decades The success of that policy has rested on ...