When the debris settles after special counsel Robert Mueller completes his investigation into Russian hacking of the 2016 presidential election, America will...
Though economics aspires to the rigor of the natural sciences, at the end of the day it is still a social science.
One of the great strengths of democracy is that bad policies are often reversed.
Dick Cheney, the former vice president, made just about the nastiest crack a Republican could offer about President Donald Trump’s foreign policy when he said...
With every new explosive decision that comes out of the White House these days, the world, including America’s allies, asks itself: Whatever happened to the...
Since 1958, when Lebanon woke up to find that U.S. Marines had been dispatched to the country’s shores, the Lebanese have always been aware of the special...
Governments built the current systems and institutions of international cooperation to address 19th- and 20th-century problems.
“A victim of its own success?
For a scary snapshot of what a “post-American” world looks like, consider the rupture that has been developing through three administrations in the...
Robert Mueller’s final report should present Congress with a clean choice: Either the facts warrant impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump, or they don’t.
With the abrupt breakdown of the Hanoi summit, the diplomatic negotiations between the United States and North Korea got a reset, and that’s a good thing.
It appears that President Donald Trump decided that a bad deal with North Korea was worse than no deal, a reasonable conclusion that suggests he and his team...
We were reminded of an explosive political fact this week: The investigations of President Donald Trump’s activities won’t end when special counsel Robert...
In the days after he resigned as secretary of defense in December, Jim Mattis told people he hoped to be succeeded by Patrick Shanahan, his deputy.
President Trump, in a rare reversal of a decision, has decided to keep “hundreds” of U.S. troops in northeast Syria to provide “campaign continuity” and...
At the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos last month, the evidence of mounting threats to nature, and of nature’s contributions to people,...
U.S. President Donald Trump has proved truly disruptive to the trans-Atlantic relationship.
It’s refreshing to see the Democratic Party bubbling with new ideas.
When the French philosopher Voltaire was asked on his deathbed to renounce Satan, the avowed atheist famously replied: “My good man, this is no time to be...
The left wing of the Democratic Party has been getting much of the media attention since the new Congress convened, overshadowing the rise of a group of young...
For over a decade now, we have witnessed more elections and, simultaneously, less democracy.
President Donald Trump has been insisting for so long that any investigation of his personal finances would cross a “red line” that people may have overlooked...
The game of chicken is simple to describe but dangerous to play.
The showy first summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last June was draped in flags and bunting, but the decoration...
Iraqi President Barham Salih measured his words in a telephone interview from Baghdad Monday.