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

The Assad regime is dying slowly. Washington should facilitate its passing.

The surprisingly hopeful history of Islamist radicalism in America.

Did Bush’s “forward strategy for freedom” birth the Arab Spring? Umm, no.

The outcome of any U.S.-Iranian military conflict is far too complex to predict.

Robin Fox explains how cousin marriage in Iraq relates to the meaning of Antigone.

Gimmicks can’t mask basic political disagreement; they only make things worse.

Europe’s student protests point to deeper social and political dilemmas.

Brazil’s former President talks with the AI’s Walter Russell Mead about his country’s emergence as a democracy and an economic powerhouse, and how a man of the Left got labelled as a man of the right.

from the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil.