A new show based on Tolstoy’s magnum opus is more soap opera than social commentary. More’s the pity.

Most items on notional agendas for U.S.-Russia cooperation are irrelevant or impossible to achieve, regardless of the tenor of the bilateral relationship.

The question is difficult to answer. Both the children of “Woodstock nation” and their foes have changed over the decades.

Courteous behavior faces a structural disadvantage on social media—to our cost.

A new biography of John le Carré could have told us so much more than it does.

The Kurds of Iran are the least powerful of all such communities in the Middle East, but now they have begun attacking the regime. Will it end in a massacre?

The question is not whether Islam belongs in Europe or the United States, but how.

Sunday’s attack is neither the first nor the last that the Coptic Church will endure in Egypt.

Silencing liberals and moderate conservatives in the debate about Islamic religious practices in Europe will only pave the way for more populist successes.

The temptation to strike a bargain with a great-power rival is one the Romans knew, too. We should resist it.