The President committed a double folly this week: starting a trade war against China while pleasing Russia and Iran with a promised pull-out from Syria.

The arrest of two oligarch brothers may signal a new power struggle over the Prime Minister post, or an intensified crackdown on private business. Either way, don’t bet on liberal reform in Putin’s next term.

Hungary emerged from the collapse of European communism as the poster child for seamless transitions. Today, its future looks more than a little like its pre-communist, authoritarian past.

70 years after its implementation, the Marshall Plan continues to be held up as the gold standard of American foreign policy and mined for contemporary relevance. Why did it succeed?

The recent violence in Gaza will only exacerbate months of simmering tensions between the rival Palestinian factions.

For the first time in decades, America is consciously squandering the gifts of its geography.

The changes wrought by scientific-technical innovation are far outrunning the capacity of our temperamentally conservative institutions to keep up with them.

Half a century ago, Poland was rocked by student protests and anti-Semitic purges that it has never fully grappled with—and which still divide the country to this day.

A sexual harassment scandal in Russia’s parliament threatens to expose the Putin regime’s hollow, hypocritical commitment to “traditional values.”

Though little noticed abroad, the political terrain in Pakistan is rapidly shifting as the religious parties lose ground to the moderate middle class. Can the trend make a difference in the long run?