Turkish secularism is eroding before our eyes, and the resulting cocktail of religious intolerance and social activism may even threaten the current Islamist leaders who are mixing it up.

Recent commentary on Europe has been overwhelmingly parochial. You can’t talk about the continent’s crises and future in a vacuum.

American passivity has already helped ensure that the fall of Bashar al-Assad will be worse than it might have been. What will Washington do with Syria when it can no longer do nothing?

The errant 2002–03 U.S. intelligence estimate of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction stockpiles and the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on the Iranian nuclear weapons program are two of the most controversial judgments in the history of the U.S. intelligence community.

In his reluctance to brandish America’s world leadership credentials at every turn, President Obama is tapping into an interesting if frustrating strain of American history—and it just might help America learn the wisdom of great power prudence and humility.

A lot of official Republican discourse tries to skate past the failures of the Bush years, but this won’t do.

American colleges have a lot of practice by now at rationalizing their annual tuition increases, often by blaming the bad economy or state budget cuts. Slate’s Matt Yglesias breaks down these explanations. While it’s true that state support for public universities has fallen over the past few years, universities have increased tuition by more than is required […]

Did we just hear the death knell for corn ethanol? Congress may finally be coming to its senses about one of the biggest green policy failures in America, as two bills were introduced yesterday to fix the corn ethanol mandate. Reuters reports: The legislation would eliminate corn-based ethanol targets, which make up the vast majority of the […]

The student debt crisis isn’t just a problem for students; it could depress the whole economy. That’s the upshot of the new comments the Center for American Progress submitted to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.Student debt has risen to a frightening $1 trillion, and New York’s Federal Reserve Bank has reported that almost 30 percent of all student loans […]