In the Kavanaugh controversy, both outcomes were guaranteed to enrage half the country—but only one avoided a system-smashing incentive structure.

A series of high-profile mishaps have exposed the incompetence of Russia’s intelligence services. And yet the main threat to Putin’s rule would still come from the siloviki.

The shrillness, vulgarity, and shamelessness on display in the Kavanaugh spectacle will only get worse—because it is in the self-interest of our bottom-line-obsessed media to let it get worse.

Jair Bolsonaro will not be the cause of democratic decay in Brazil. He’s better understood as a symptom of it.

What happens when the stories through which we make sense of the world collapse?

Adam Tooze reveals the unanswered questions still roiling European politics.

At times a villain to both nativists and progressives, Columbus and his legacy will continue to elude us.

Google’s newfound moral flexibility has real, tangible costs.

Humanitarian criticism of the war in Yemen should not blind us to the serious threat posed by the Houthis and the strategic case for U.S. involvement.

The debate we should be having on Brett Kavanaugh turns on a crucial question: What sorts of youthful transgressions are forgivable, and which are disqualifying, for which jobs?