Kim Jong-un may promise Donald Trump the moon when the two meet on Singapore’s Santosa Island. But he won’t deliver. History provides some key clues why North Korea will not part with its nukes.

A new world is emerging. The collective sense in Washington—by no means limited to Trump—is that Western idealism has become unmanageable.

Russia’s compromise proposal for Syria’s south appears to lack Iranian buy-in—and it is primarily Tehran’s calculations that will decide whether the Israel-Iran conflict spirals out of control.

Libya has taken a critical step toward a democratic normalcy that it has never known.

Sanctions on Russia are not achieving their desired result for a whole slew of reasons. We should keep them in place anyway.

Eschewing the Big Plans of her time, Jane Jacobs believed that urban renewal began with the countless hopes and dreams of a city’s individuals.

Why Armenia’s Velvet Revolution has not perturbed Moscow.

Hungary’s combative leader does not fulfill all his critics’ stereotypes. But of his ambition, centralization of power, and tolerance of corruption, there can be no doubt.

Meanwhile, U.S.-Egypt ties are treading water, with vital diplomatic posts still unfilled.

Interviews with dozens of European opinion leaders reveal how the President is shredding American credibility and alienating allies in Europe.