At the UN General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu took a very unusual attitude, for him: optimism.

Europe continues to fragment as an anti-immigrant backlash gathers strength.

The city may soon be freed from the Islamic State, but it won’t be easy to govern afterward. Foreigners—and even Iraqis—had better study its complexities.

A Bosnian referendum shows Russia’s influence in the Balkans—as well as its limits.

How Russia’s leader has played a weak hand to its fullest, and why the West always seems to be playing catch-up.

Can we learn anything from past rounds of technological disruption and mass downward socio-economic mobility?

Precisely because he has a colder view of international affairs than Obama, Netanyahu’s leadership has made Israel stronger than ever.

Despite speculation about a pivot toward China, Russia, and India, and away from the United States and Europe, the answer is: no. And Israel is the better for it.

Western governments should block private business from helping to finance Russian aggression in Ukraine and Syria.

For most religious people today modernity and religion relate to each other not as either/or but as both/and.