A weak president with a talent for creating a spectacle finishes the year more free to be himself, for better and for worse.

Brexit in all its banal futility shows a return to the normal nastiness of Europe, after a 70-year hiatus of borrowed stability paid for by America.

The view that “none of us deserve citizenship” is incoherent because it invokes the horrors of statelessness to make what is essentially an anti-statist argument.

Neither the delisting of Rusal nor the allowing of sanctioned Russian persons to attend Davos is a capitulation.

We probably should not be leaving Syria. But it’s more complicated than the chatterati would have you believe.

A new documentary from an 88-year-old master casts an empathetic spotlight on small-town America, and the institutions that sustain its communal life.

The Butina case highlights the insidious danger to our cherished notions of democracy and justice—not from Butina’s actual activities, but from the probable overreaction to them.

RIP Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari (1949-2018), who worked to build support for the cause of Tibet in the United States, and led negotiations with Chinese officials on behalf of the Dalai Lama.

It is often assumed that more democratic contestation means better democracy. But too much of a good thing can be bad.

Over the past seven decades, the human rights community has lost its way. A return to its roots is more necessary than ever.