President Obama’s Science Envoy and a Nobel laureate in chemistry has an idea for restoring America’s image in the Middle East.

The market democracies of the world, whether European or American, will remain the big kids on the block for the foreseeable future.

While Europeans and Americans argue about who has the more attractive model, the rest of the world is increasingly being tempted by a third option.

To appreciate the tortured path of the efforts to control the power of money in American politics from the passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act in 2002 to January’s Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which reversed much of that law and undermined a few others, we must first understand […]

The sudden deaths of a British Princess and a Polish President don’t have much in common, but the reactions to them do.

Some are smiling at Europe’s comeuppance. But Schadenfreude would be unwarranted, especially coming from Americans.

There’s plenty of hubris to be found on both sides of the Atlantic.

Europe’s strength lies in its diversity of history and of geography, but its weakness lies there as well.

The European project is a global blueprint for social change, environmental protection and supranational governance. Yet nobody talks about Europe in such glowing terms today. Why has the shine come off the apple?

The verdict on the G-20 meeting is in.  It wasn’t delivered by the spinmeisters of the global leaders hailing their bosses’ groundbreaking accomplishments.  It wasn’t delivered by the clueless journalists gravely assessing whether the summit was a win for Merkel’s message of austerity or Obama’s message of spending.  The verdict was delivered by the world’s […]