Once the toast of Washington, the post-communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe are at risk of descending into corruption and drifting into Russia’s orbit.

Wolf Hall: sex, religion, violence, and why the Tudors still captivate 500 years later.

Russia is trapped in an unsatisfying holding pattern, hoping for oil prices to recover, for the West to fragment and for Ukraine to implode.

The use of the category of “Nones” in surveys pertaining to religion should be replaced with “Buts”—that is a category for those who will say something like “I am Catholic, but…” The results of such surveys would be much more enlightening.

The U.S. Congress needs to attack the pillars of Putin’s domestic support by exposing the regime’s rampant corruption.

For all the speeches by politicians and the analysis of pundits, no-one really has a clue what will happen in Thursday’s election. History, however, suggests a few ways things could go.

The media has by and large given President Obama’s failed Afghanistan policy a pass—just as it has his larger foreign policy missteps.

Tugging on the common threads of Baltimore 2015 and Cairo 2011.

If the Obama administration thinks it can use a nuclear deal to domesticate Iran, it should think again.

Game of Thrones at the French National Front.