Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, has just proposed financial reform legislation that is enormous even by the bloated standards of our contemporary Congress.

Warren Buffett has just closed the largest deal of his spectacular career with an agreement to purchase the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad for US$26.3 billion.

The annual conference of the British Conservative Party, just held in Manchester, England, has a direct bearing on politics and foreign policy in the United States.

This past week marks the sixtieth anniversary of the proclamation of the People's Republic of China by Communist leader Mao Zedong. Nationalist China leader Chiang Kai-shek and the routed remnants of his army had fled to the island of Taiwan (in those days, more commonly referred to as “Formosa” in the West).

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, capital of the long-beleaguered U.S. steel industry, hosted the September 24-25 summit of the G-20, the organization of the largest economies in the world.

U.S. President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and administration associates deserve commendation for making the right call concerning deployment of anti-missile weapons in Europe.

High-level global financial policy gatherings continue to grind on. On September 4 and 5, finance ministers of the Group of 20 (G-20), the principal industrial economies of the world, met in London.

Afghanistan developments are grim. On September 2, a Taliban suicide bomber killed the nation's deputy chief of intelligence, Abdullah Laghmani, and more than twenty others.

Regarding aggressive intelligence gathering, the Obama administration is now clearly at war — with the Obama administration.

Senator Edward M. Kennedy has died at the age of seventy-seven of incurable brain cancer first diagnosed in May 2008, leaving in his wake an exceptional record of public service.