These days, China and Pakistan are eager to proclaim a friendship that is “sweeter than honey.” Yet as history shows, the partnership has always been a superficial one.

Why conservatives and liberals don’t talk to each other so good.

This week’s inconclusive election results have confirmed once again that Italy’s democratic dysfunction runs deep. In the short term, it may well prove ungovernable.

Five discomfiting aspects of the media spectacle that now accompanies every mass shooting.

In Loveless, the latest Oscar-nominated import from Russia’s most famous filmmaker, every unhappy family is alike, while happy families are nowhere to be seen at all.

Doomsayers are too quick to predict the inevitable decline of democracy. As the example of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty shows, a smart investment in “new power” efforts can lay the foundation for a democratic renewal.

The yawning duplicity of the Syrian regime and its Russian lawyers grows wider, and the irresponsible claims of the Obama Administration become more obvious than ever.

The President’s proposed parade isn’t just a wasteful paean to tin-pot despotism. It constitutes a broader threat to U.S. civil-military relations.

Americans once knew how to effectively communicate with Russian audiences, and they in turn wanted to engage with Western voices. What went wrong, and how can we fix it?

Thank the ANC, not South Africa’s institutions, for finally forcing out a failed President.