A memoir of a girl’s Maine childhood considered by another Maine memoirist, with sixty years—and a class divide—separating the two.

How the President took a bad situation in Afghanistan and made it even worse.

America’s rivals are probing U.S. defenses across the globe.

Dissecting the Kremlin’s search for a modus vivendi with the West, as well as its attempt to pivot to China.

Will China finish the economic transformation it has so successfully begun, or will it crash along the way?

The U.S. has had some success in reducing cigarette use, alcohol consumption, and even fuel consumption by increasing taxes on the consumable. Let’s try it with guns.

The Petraeus affair has exposed the hollowness of U.S. intelligence classification decisions and made a mockery of the justice system.

Ankara is now squeezed between the fight against IS in Syria and the fight against the PKK at home.

How Western Russia experts fell for “Medvedev the reformer,” and why many of them buy into the Kremlin’s “humiliation” narrative.

Elite failure to manage the growing migrant crisis is putting the future of the European project at risk.