Since the September 11 attacks, federal judges have out of necessity plunged into the real-life facts of terrorism’s twilight world of training camps, safe houses, and dry runs, as they review the Guantanamo dossiers of al Qaeda and Taliban suspects captured in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Even in the view of hard-bitten intelligence types, the federal […]

Half a lifetime ago, on a hot July afternoon, I sat in the living room of international war crimes prosecutor Richard Goldstone, glued to the screen as Dutch television newscasters announced another dreary episode in the ethnic conflict of the former Yugoslavia. This time it was the capture of a small Bosnian municipality—the obscure town […]

Constructive moderation is the lodestone of Brazil’s way in the world.

U.S.-Brazilian cooperation needs careful tending in changing times.

Deradicalization programs are justified by their indirect effects.

Shades of gray envelop political Islam in autocratic Central Asia.

Carlos Saldanha’s animated blue macaw is Hollywood’s soft-power gift to Brazil.

Cambodia’s demons thrive on the international community’s largesse.

Coming to terms with the historical legacy of the “Great Compromiser.”

The centenary of E.F. Schumacher, author of Small Is Beautiful.