It’s time to set aside the one-size-fits-all approach to aiding countries in transition.

The United States has options for preventing—or at least limiting the scope of—a regional showdown in Syria.

The national security consequences of increasingly polarized publics have not yet registered in debates about the collective defense of the West. 

Imagination policing in publishing is rapidly getting out of hand.

When countries refuse to look clearly at the past, they are like neurotics controlled by compulsions they cannot understand.

There are lessons to be learned for the United States in studying democratic decline abroad, but it’s also easy to take the comparisons too far.

Since the 19^th century, government statistics have been central to our sense of shared social reality. Is that going away?

The utility of the Mueller investigation has not been the uncovering of collusion, or even in the badgering of an Administration perceived as loathsome. Rather, it has allowed American elites to avoid facing uncomfortable questions about the factors that put Trump in the White House.

And a post-mortem on U.S. policy during the Arab uprisings.

Don’t hold your breath.