Historians today say “yes.” But free men and women would have built it better and made it richer.

Scottish nationalist leader Alex Salmond made a merry trip to Tehran before Christmas. But in Washington, there was scarcely a stir.

The last year of an administration, as seen from the inside.

What you can learn about Russian geopolitics at an art show in Venice.

Make it a New Year’s resolution to catch up with the magazine’s must-read essays of 2015.

A 1923 Yiddish operetta returns to the New York stage. It still has a lot to say about Jews and America.

Indulge your Churchillian obsession with the latest volume of war documents, and behold the labor that his leadership required. 

After years of the Syrian civil war, the UN is foundering, and putting the President’s foreign policy legacy at risk.

Polarization is more our problem than our politicians’. The success of the nation requires that we, the people, overcome it.

We ought to be borne back ceaselessly into Fitzgerald’s genius—and not just to his reputed masterwork.