Throughout history, many intellectuals have been willing to write their society's obituary long before the game was up.
It’s no cause for celebration, but the global financial crisis shows why the United States remains the indispensable nation.
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.
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.
There are five maxims the federal government can follow to regain the public confidence it has lost over the past four decades.
Americans love to complain about gridlock in Washington and partisan warfare between presidents and Congress. Yet the record suggests that unified party government is no panacea.
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.