Knowingly or not, Ilhan Omar is acting like a designated provocateur, playing her role in a shrewd effort to seize control of the Democratic Party. But her rhetoric has deep roots in American politics.

The reason immigration politics are so intractable is that America can’t make up its mind about what sort of immigrants it wants.

After four months of talks, Sweden has formed a new government that looks very much like its old one. But under the surface, the ground is shifting.

Trump derangement syndrome has made the media less edifying but also more profitable.

Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War is an ambivalent film: Though it makes no apologies for communism, its attitude toward the West feels decidedly bitter.

From Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Donald J. Trump, our political class is profoundly ignorant of basic economics.

Nostalgia might be comforting, but it should not compel us to hang on to a treaty that does not reflect today’s global security landscape.

The problems the radical Left seeks to address are real. But their solutions are not nearly radical enough.

The good news is that democracy is not declining, at least in the aggregate. The bad news is that developing countries have taken a turn for the worse.

Blackface in the 1980s might reflect the cavalier, ill-considered racism that was pretty much in the water at the time; today it would undoubtedly reflect a belligerent assertion of white supremacy. The same behavior does not always correspond to the same motives or presuppositions.