The situation in Syria today, now occupying the top slot on the international agenda, is about more than just the U.S.-Russia political compromise on chemical weapons. It is also about the interethnic and sectarian tensions driving Syria’s civil war. These tensions are echoing well beyond Syria itself, into the countries of the Greater Caucasus region, […]

Americans define personal success in different ways, but certainly no one strives for mediocrity. Maybe this is why Tyler Cowen’s latest book is getting people angry.

The old debate between W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington lives on, but the terms have been flipped on their heads.

The "great (colonial) American novel" was written more than half a century ago. John Barth's 1960 masterpiece, The Sot Weed Factor, keeps improving with age.

American prosperity and security are linked to the ability of financial markets to stimulate invention and innovation.

Russia and America are natural allies in the north Pacific.

What statesmen come to call various regions of the world predisposes them to adopt certain strategic concepts over others.

The rise of Germany is reconfiguring the former Warsaw Pact zone as both the United States and the European Union struggle over a crisis of political economy.

The ambitions of post-Cold War U.S. policy in Central Europe have hit a wall.

Mark Leibovich's This Town is a symptom of the same Beltway insider disease it aims to describe.