Hollywood classics illuminate the complexities of Afghanistan.

There are lessons to be learned from the rejuvenation of this former narco-hellhole of murder and mayhem.

Heda Margolius Kovály’s Under a Cruel Star is a masterpiece of memoir still awaiting its due

How the Pentagon’s official fundraiser for the war in Afghanistan discovered that stingy allies weren’t even the half of the problem compared to the mess in Washington.

How Samuel Huntington helps us understand the Jasmine Revolutions.

Collective defense in the coming century will require both greater reciprocity and more self-reliance on the part of our allies.

An unsentimental checklist for assessing an ally's value in parlous times.

The history of milk—from sacred nourishment to taboo drink to our modern, dairy-saturated abundance.

Alexander Girard turned the act of displaying folk art into an art form all its own.

U.S. oceans policy is dangerously adrift.