After two decades of explosive growth and nearly a decade of rising geopolitical clout, the BRICs now face a number of grim economic indicators.

The West is struggling to navigate Islam’s major sectarian cleavage; about 500 years ago a Muslim superpower navigated Christendom’s Wars of the Reformation. Anything to learn here, perhaps?

Two entwined truths go far to define U.S. foreign policy: We must promote democracy; and we certainly will make a hash out of it.

There is a distinctive Anglo-American way of conceptualizing global strategic reality, and it goes far deeper than the abstractions of liberalism.

Three distinct patterns of transition out of communist rule exist: Russian, Chinese, and East European. The new American policy dooms Cuba to the worst of the lot.

Even more Americans are biking their way to work and to better health-also to bars, romance, and all too often emergency rooms.

The creator and 42-year director of the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment plots his next career move.

As the credulous Rolling Stone shows, abandoning skepticism in the service of a higher cause is a self-defeating proposition.

The mental act of looking at something is a critical component of conscience. This perhaps helps us understand why certain front lines in the culture war are shifting and others are not.

The troubling remark everyone missed in Tom Friedman’s interview with President Obama—and some ruminations on the sad state of American political discourse.