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Thirty years ago this week, Bill and Hillary Clinton outlined their ill-fated plan for unprecedented government inte

Over the past two years, more often than not, China has opposedU.S. interests or has remained neutral or aloof. A constructive andcooperative relationship with China can emerge only if Americanpolicymakers understand that the promotion of democratic ideals anda stable American presence in Asia are objectives that China'sleaders seek to obstruct, and then engage China on that basisalone.

The Social Order In July 2015, President Obama paid a press-saturated visit to a federal penitentiary in Oklahoma. The cell blocks that Obama toured had been evacuated in anticipation of his arrival, but after talking to six carefully prescreened inmates, he drew some conclusions about the path to prison. “These are young people who made mistakes that aren’t that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made,” the president told the waiting reporters. The...