A sympathetic critic issues a wake-up call for an America mired in groupthink and blind to its own shortcomings.
As Mexico steps up its war against the brutal cartels that supply the United States’ drug habit, leaders on both sides of the border face tough questions about how to combat a problem that threatens the very fabric of Mexico’s democracy.
“Here lies Europe, overwhelmed by Muslim immigrants and emptied of native-born Europeans,” goes the standard pundit line, but neither the immigrants nor the Europeans are playing their assigned roles.
Wherever there's a debate over gay marriage, free speech, or even smoking in public places, the arguments John Stuart Mill made in On Liberty are still in the thick of the action.
Ethnic and religious violence keep Russia s North Caucasus region in the news. A portrait of daily life in one small village reveals a richer, more hopeful reality.
America’s national security structure is designed to confront the challenges of the last century rather than our own.
The most brilliant policies will fail if government does not attract talented people and free them to do their best work.
On the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, a distinguished biographer muses on the counsel the Great Emancipator might offer the new president who so often invokes him.
A new way of war is on the horizon. Already, robots and drones are replacing human pilots and foot soldiers in some roles, and in the future they will take over many more. The benefits of removing human soldiers from harm’s way are obvious. But there’s a price to pay when a society can wage war by remote control.
There are five maxims the federal government can follow to regain the public confidence it has lost over the past four decades.