Wei Te-Sheng’s films illuminate Asia’s under-appreciated success story.

Two new books give us revisionist accounts of the histories of the Holy Roman and Austrian Empires.

Disraeli sought to bring Britain into the future; Trump seeks to restore a golden past.

Some think the West has a Russia problem, not a Putin problem. The truth is it probably has both.

Western policy has been based on the premise that the simple solution to our Russia problem is finding some hitherto elusive common interest. What if that premise is wrong?

The just-released Dutch-led report on the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 in Ukraine should bolster the case for renewing sanctions on Putin’s lawless regime.

Historian of the Nazi Era and political analyst of totalitarianism.

How technology and market forces are transforming animal-based industries for the better.

Europe continues to fragment as an anti-immigrant backlash gathers strength.

The city may soon be freed from the Islamic State, but it won’t be easy to govern afterward. Foreigners—and even Iraqis—had better study its complexities.