Russia’s security services have been slowly taking over the state—and dismantling Putin’s own system of keeping the various factions competing with each other.

The growing ease of genetically modifying bacteria and viruses presages real trouble ahead.

The United States must choose between embracing Iran, the world’s largest state sponsor of terror, or bolstering its alliance with a gradually reforming Saudi Arabia.

Party politics has always involved considerable hypocrisy, but the modern Republican Party has taken it to a new level.

First loathing, then loving, the all-encompassing symphonies of Gustav Mahler.

When presented to consumers in the optimal light, taxes on sugary drinks can significantly reduce consumption and thereby obesity.

The FSB’s notorious 6th Service nets itself another victim as it consolidates control over the financial sector protection racket.

Democratic illegitimacy in the United States and the rest of the world results more from political than economic discontent.

The first obligation of leadership is to one’s own people. The international elite have forgotten that, and end up serving no one but themselves.

Yes. Understanding why this is true sheds light on one important formula of peace in a pluralist society.