Peter Beinart believes that by electing Barack Obama the American people are ridding "the anti-intellectualism that has dominated politics for 50 years."

Peter Beinart writes that "Obama understands that foreign policy is, in international-relations-speak, a two-sided game."

Michael Gerson writes that "there is a lesson here for Barack Obama's administration: Sometimes power must be lightly held to be effectively employed."

Don't write off capitalism; it has thrived on crises for the past 300 years, contends Walter Russell Mead.

Sebastian Mallaby writes that the end-of-capitalism talk is bunk. It distracts us from the debate we should be having on how to manage the necessary shift in the balance of our mixed economy.

James L. Jones, a retired Marine commandant, brings extensive military and diplomatic experience to his new post as national security adviser for President Barack Obama.

Janet Napolitano, experienced in federal law enforcement and immigration issues, has been selected for secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

Noah Feldman writes that "the time for change is now, lest Afghanistan become the quagmire that Iraq was once said to be."

In this Wall Street Journal op-ed, Amity Shlaes responds to the claim that the trouble with the New Deal was that it didn't spend enough. Instead, she argues that massive government spending takes away jobs in the private sector.

Sebastian Mallaby says that desperate times demand creative remedies. Fortunately, Obama has chosen to surround himself with experienced technocrats-pragmatists who excel at imaginative improvisation.

In this Washington Post op-ed, Edward Alden writes that current immigration policy "was built in the wake of 9/11, but it will have to be reformed in the shadow of the economic crisis."

Peter Beinart says that filling the Obama administration with former Clintonites "gives Democrats a better chance at dramatic change than they've had in 75 years."

Michael Gerson writes that "administration officials believe they have taken precautions that will encourage Iraqi nationalism over a destructive pan-Shiism."

Scott Snyder  writes that "on the list of potential crises that the Obama administration will inherit come January 20th will be the task of achieving the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula."

In this Bloomberg op-ed, Amity Shlaes argues that President-elect Obama should not use Keynesian solutions to address the economic crisis. She points out that the Great Society of the mid-1960s, which was the ultimate Keynesian experiment, did not work very well.

Daniel Markey writes that "the new Obama team will need to step forward quickly to determine whether Karzai is a minimally capable partner."

In this New York Post op-ed, Amity Shlaes says that the Democratic Party is widening the definition of 'change' by the hour, using the financial crisis as a pretext to advance old social agendas. But government health care and 'card check' legislation don't have much to do with mortgage crises.

Peter Beinart writes that "if Barack pops the question, Hillary should suggest Colin Powell instead."