There is one enduring lesson from Angela Merkel’s big political defeat this weekend that bears repeating on both sides of the Atlantic: This is what happens when you don’t listen to your citizens.

Faced with its own long-standing territorial issues with Russia, Japan under Shinzo Abe is holding a strong line against the illegal annexation of Crimea.

We still may not know everything, but thanks to Jeffrey Goldberg, we know a whole lot more than we did a few days ago about how the President thinks.

How Europe’s infectious institutionalization of irresponsibility is perpetuating the migrant crisis.

Are there really any justifications for the annexation of Crimea and armed intervention in Ukraine?

The short answer is “no,” but there’s plenty of room for discomfort.

Whoever wins in November, Europeans fear that collective security and Transatlantic relations will not return to center stage.

Unilateral disarmament in the culture wars is impossible when the left is on offense.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Mohamed Hassenein Heikal were the products of an Egyptian intellectual class that never imagined a life outside the state, and of serving its ruler.

There is a curious affinity between the recent LGBT movement and conservative religious views about the sexual dimension of human life.