While Europeans and Americans argue about who has the more attractive model, the rest of the world is increasingly being tempted by a third option.

To appreciate the tortured path of the efforts to control the power of money in American politics from the passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act in 2002 to January’s Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which reversed much of that law and undermined a few others, we must first understand […]

The Washington Post reported this week that a number of Arizona politicians, both Republican and Democratic, are deeply concerned over their state’s developing reputation for intolerance and bigotry. One interviewee, Grant Woods, a Republican former state attorney general, lamented the current state of affairs: “To be an Arizonan is to be a part of Mexico. […]

It’s not easy for a traditional land power to go to sea, but China is trying.

How to save Abkhazia from being permanently absorbed into Russia.

Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade loses his grip on reality.

State fairs are big business, great fun and, like most everything else, in flux.

How a nearly forgotten institution pioneered social networking.

William Kunstler, radical lawyer or celebrity addict?

Italy’s filmmakers rail against a citizenry reduced to spectatorship.