Australia has a new Prime Minister, who promises to do away with the coups and counter-coups plaguing its politics.

The tempestuous course of U.S.-Israeli relations in recent years has been the subject of much rancor and speculation. Here’s how a formative period looked from close up, inside the White House.

Withdrawing from a contest isn’t always cost free. Allies are always watching.

Movie star Benedict Cumberbatch takes on Shakespeare’s most famous character, plus hordes of screaming fans. More power to him—and them.

What is the point of making strategic recommendations to someone who has not the slightest interest in hearing them?

It turns out, Iran doesn’t seem to be all that interested in promoting a stable order in the Middle East in cooperation with the United States.

Senator Bernie Sanders needs to address the most fundamentally divisive vocabulary of all, namely the twin dualities of “left vs. right” and “liberal vs. conservative.”

Whether they like it or not, the Czechs are the nation of Havel. What they need to work out, with the help of biographies like Michael Žantovský’s, is what that means.

In international comparisons of electoral integrity, the United States does not score high—but most Americans appear to neither know nor care about it.

Changing how elections are structured can help depolarize U.S. politics without jeopardizing the democratic process.