The West’s inability to comprehend how Vladimir Putin sees the world means it has trouble thinking constructively about how to deal with him.

The President missed an opportunity with his “America’s College Promise” plan. A joint college and home-ownership access program would have been more the ticket—and yes, there is a way to pay for it.

Arguments to abandon Ukraine to its fate just don’t stack up.

We gave you the winners; now here are their opposites.

Russia’s 2014 may have begun on a high note, but thanks in large part to a raft of poor decisions and miscalculations by its leadership, now finds itself in its most vulnerable position since Mr. Putin first took power fifteen years ago.

The modern Western penchant for trusting in the equal rationality of all is strategic folly. Aeschylus understood this well.

Before the Charlie Hebdo attack, France was a country racked by self-doubt and in self-evident decline. Will it capture a new sense of purpose in its aftermath?

For a change, Israel’s upcoming elections will be largely about domestic issues, but they will have historic ramifications nonetheless.

The State of the Union address had nothing to do with governing, everything to do with political posturing—with a mediated-image twist.

The American Historical Association rejected a pair of anti-Israel resolutions earlier this month. Perhaps the most important fact about that incident: they rejected them as historians.