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TO THE EDITOR: Norman Podhoretz's article on World War IV is extraordinary, doing what no one else has done to date ['World War IV: How It Started, What It Means, […]

FIFTY years from now the world's population will be declining, with no end in sight. Unless people's values change greatly, several centuries from now there could be fewer people living [...]

TO THE EDITOR: Hillel Halkin hits so many nails squarely on the head in 'Israel's New Reality' [October 2006] that I regret to note that he repeats the important mistake [...]

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE SOVIET EMPIRE EVERYTHING IS UNCERTAIN, but here are ten propositions that seem reasonably likely. Additional argument in support of the more controversial propositions is [...]

IN 1980 MOST EXPERTS agreed that oil prices could only go up. Following the panic of the Iranian revolution, the price spiked to more than $80 a barrel adjusted for [...]

The big demographic story of the next century could be the plunging world population. Fifty years from now the world's population will be declining, with no end in sight. Unless [...]

MISLEADING POINTS The timeline which accompanied the symposium ('Is the Two-State Solution Dead?' May/June 2013) was a valiant effort to be a brief, balanced summary, but several points might be [...]

TO THE EDITOR: Joshua Muravchik's excellent article about the debate on the Right about Iraq does not consider what may be a critical cause of the difficulties there: the gap [...]

Offers a look at the implication of replacing the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with a democratic system for the country and its people. Beliefs which were the basis for U.S. policymakers to ignore the role of the Iraqi people in its goal of ousting Hussein; Possible outcome of establishing democracy in Iraq considering that it is composed of a multiplicity of different communities; Reason behind the decision of the U.S. government to back an internal coup instead of supporting the effort of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) to produce a national uprising against the regime of Hussein; Objective behind the creation of INC after the Gulf War; Elements that made peaceful coexistence much more difficult when Iraq became independent.

CORY AQUINO AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF BUBBLES WHEN EVERYBODY is convincedthat something has a very high value--whether tulip bulbs in the seventeenth century or Cory Aquino in the twentieth--there's no [...]

CAN THE CONTRAS WIN? IN THE CRUDE Contra camps in the tropical forest nearthe border of Nicaragua, morale is high. I visited the camps last month and saw thousands of [...]

The immediate question concerning the Mideast is whether Arab enemies of peace with Israel can prevent Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization from governing Gaza and Jericho. There is [...]