How the zero risk mentality breeds a culture of anxiety and a hunger for authority.

Most programs train students to become capable policy analysts, but with no understanding of how to implement those policies in the real world.

Imran Khan may be a fresh face to head Pakistan’s façade of a civilian government. But there are no signs that he will depart from the military’s dictates or change the country’s overall direction.

Why do so many instances of terrorist violence involve drug use and abuse?

It is difficult to resist the temptation to rant against the ineptness and mean-spiritedness of the Trump Administration’s recent border apprehension policies. Yet the moral and ethical obtuseness on display is the product of a long and complex history.

In Cologne and environs, liberal Germany finds itself (con)tested.­­

U.S. security aid to Lebanon has never been politically palatable, and it’s facing new headwinds these days. But the strategic case for continuing it remains sound.

Freedom of speech, freedom to access and produce information, and a hyper-individualized sense of “self”—all symbols of the 20th-century struggle for human rights—have been turned on their head by savvy, repressive regimes.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, Belgrade and Moscow are not natural allies. But Westerners who treat them as such are only driving them closer.

Blaming doctors or pharmaceutical companies or capitalism for the opioid crisis is futile. Bad diagnoses will always generate bad solutions.