The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki made Japan deeply averse to nuclear weapons. Now, amid growing security concerns, it may abandon that aversion.

In the complicated post-industrial society of the United States, it may not be possible to downsize the government—which means the future for whistleblowing looks bright.

A limited aerial attack on Iranian oil facilities would signal to the mullahs—and the world—that the United States will match Iranian attacks but not go beyond them.

The United States and Great Britain ultimately traded places after WWII. But the hand-off was much messier than is often acknowledged.

Boris Johnson is Prime Minister. The prognosis still looks bleak for Brexit.

After a convincing win in last month’s elections, the question is whether Narendra Modi and his BJP are becoming entrenched political fixtures, or whether India’s rambunctious democracy will soon turn on the incumbents.

Climate change is a real and serious threat. How to tackle it, however, is far from obvious.

It seems safe to say that the political transformations of Russia, China, and Iran into stable democracies would do more to make Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East zones of peace than any other development.

It’s not an ideology, but it’s a threat all the same.

The euro’s prospects for the future are dismal. But right now, abandoning the currency is a political dead-end.