D.R. Burgess

Something very odd is happening in China. A few days ago the most sanguine predictions claimed that dissident Chen Guangcheng's desperate flight to the U.S. embassy at Beijing would end -- could only end -- in severe embarrassment for China. Now Mr. Chen has departed the embassy, and with it...

Now that Iowa and New Hampshire are over, there is a definite sense that fatigue has settled in. I don't mean the candidates. I mean us.

We have been bombarded with a seemingly endless list of things Republicans don't like: health care, Lady Gaga, birth control, the East Coast...

Michele Bachmann's presidential run is an anomaly: a candidate greeted with equal enthusiasm by both ends of the political spectrum. With every reliable poll predicting a double-digit loss to President Obama in 2012, Democrats are cheering her on with the vindictive glee of a crowd watching an opposing player streaking...

When Sarah Palin flunked third grade social studies last week, her allies were quick to defend her. What difference did it make, really? Does knowing whom Paul Revere actually warned make a possible candidate any more or less savant on fiscal policy? Should mistakenly declaring that the...

While Osama bin Laden contributes to the great chain of life in some undisclosed corner of the Arabian Sea, his deputy Khalid Sheikh Mohammed awaits trial. Perhaps unbeknownst to himself, he has just been promoted. Now comes the hard part.

The undeniable risk of taking bin Laden alive, and holding...

There is no piracy off the coast of Somalia. Who says? The UN, for starters. Since 1982, the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea defines piracy as an act of theft on sea, carried out for private (read, nonpolitical) ends. American law, which defers to the Law of...