Five takeaways from the first year of the Trump presidency.

Domestic and international pressures are intersecting in dangerous ways for the Trump presidency in 2018.

The Trump administration’s plan to help struggling coal producers hit a major roadblock this week.

The President’s new National Security Strategy is encouragingly “low-energy,” but is it credible?

Odd Arne Westad’s near-definitive account of the Cold War gets the big things right.

The tax bill shows that donor influence on Congress remains a problem, but reform efforts to reduce this corruption are further polarizing the country.

Universal Basic Income can incentivize risk taking and help combat regulatory capture.

Moscow defied Western sanctions by opening up an LNG export terminal on schedule and within budget.

In an unprecedented challenge to the U.S., Germany’s foreign minister proposes “Europe first” and making nice with Putin’s Russia.

If you look hard enough, you can almost find ideological consistency in the Republicans’ breathtaking tax bill.