Eli Lake says that US citizens should want their government to undermine the gulag state of North Korea, not help preserve it with another compromise    

Why is the euro so strong, when the eurozone’s economy is barely out of recession?

IN THE 1920s, the Irish Free State was, if not wholly independent, then at least democratic.

The Bush administration is trying to put its best face on the delay in agreeing on a constitution in Iraq, insisting “they are going to finish this”.