Europe is currently on the receiving end of the largest mass migration in recent history. And due to its geography, Greece has become a popular, and meagerly equipped, gatekeeper to Europe.

Europe’s political left has been a reliable defender of European integration against its right-wing critics. The Greek economic meltdown might soon change that, facilitating instead a rapprochement between the political left and the Euroskeptics.

Mikhail Saakashvili’s charismatic style and ample political capital have generated more optimism for reform than Odessa has seen in a generation. If he can’t do it here, can anyone fix Ukraine?

If there is one thing that the history of South Carolina may have to teach the rest of the country it is this: that nothing is more exceptional about American history than the way that the African American church has helped make us a nation that is better, happier, and more united than we have any right to expect.

Another “deadline” in the Iranian nuclear negotiations has come and gone. Why the delays? What are the Mullahs thinking? For that matter, what is the President thinking?

Four lessons from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s history for the war against authoritarian propaganda.

The LGBT movement has been a step forward in the realization of the American democratic experiment. Why then my reluctance to participate in the ongoing victory party?

The unrest in Armenia might not herald another color revolution, but it has exposed the inherent flaws of Russia’s neo-imperial project.

Greece has failed the euro, and the euro has failed Greece. An exit from the euro shouldn’t mean exit from the EU, but It’s time to untangle this mess.

The unfolding Greek tragedy is about more than economics. It’s also about the EU’s democracy deficit.