How life under a theocratic government, upbringing in a Marxist-Leninist household, and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq turned a young man into a neocon.

Abdel-Wahab al-Saadi once made a name for himself by avoiding politics. Now, he’s the face of a protest movement that could upend Iraq’s fragile peace.

The defining feature of the impeachment hearings has been an inability to agree on the contours of reality—which bodes ill for the future of liberal democracy. In the new print issue, Susan B. Glasser and David J. Kramer talk democracy in the age of Trump. Also in the issue: the China challenge, plus race, culture, and identity in America.

Next year, the Social Security Trust Fund will shrink for the first time since 1982. It’s worth recalling how a crisis was averted then—and the lessons for legislative compromise in our own time.

Forget the Hollywood treatment. Harriet Tubman’s real life was stranger than fiction—and shows how to reconcile seemingly contradictory visions of American history.

The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki made Japan deeply averse to nuclear weapons. Now, amid growing security concerns, it may abandon that aversion.

Does economics have something to tell us about religion? Probably, but far less than it has to tell us about other issues.

We can learn a great deal by reading—and critiquing—the work of Walter Lippmann.

German overreach, which once brought untold misery to Europe, has turned into underreach, which does not nourish stability in troubling times.

Latin American dictators are amplifying legitimate public discontent across the region, and wielding it as a potent political weapon.