Habits, not interests, are behind U.S.-Russian tensions in the post-Soviet space.

A capacious history of the Mediterranean.

Two new books on millenarian thinking hit (too) close to home.

A lot more than money is at stake in internet-driven marketing.

Debunking the transformational power of internet freedom.

The intelligence community's classification system is broken.

It's not as straightforward a question as you might think.

[This is Part Two of the “Beyond Blue” series. Part One is available here.] A reader responding to my essay on Governor Brown and the Great White Train asked a cogent question: if building high speed rail is the wrong thing for the governor of California to be doing, what should he be working on […]

The murky world of the war in Afghanistan got murkier today. The BBC got its hands on a NATO report: The Taliban in Afghanistan are being directly assisted by Pakistani security services, according to a secret Nato report seen by the BBC.The leaked report, derived from thousands of interrogations, claims the Taliban remain defiant and […]

A new CBO report brings some bad news for President Obama: The budget deficit is likely to exceed one trillion dollars four the fourth year in a row. To make matters worse, the falling unemployment rates of the past few months are not expected to last, and the CBO predicts a return to 8.9 percent […]