The police have become first responders to the most widespread and fastest-growing drug crisis in American history: the opioid epidemic.

Russian political analysts are especially good at deception—of themselves as well as others. But why are Western experts so eager to be deceived?

Whether by mistake or design, Western sanctions have created both winners and losers in Russia, setting up an inter-elite competition that Putin may find hard to control.

Who is the Spanish prosecutor fighting the Russian mafia state?

How might we do the memory of the dearly departed writer justice?

A new world is emerging. The collective sense in Washington—by no means limited to Trump—is that Western idealism has become unmanageable.

Russia’s compromise proposal for Syria’s south appears to lack Iranian buy-in—and it is primarily Tehran’s calculations that will decide whether the Israel-Iran conflict spirals out of control.

Libya has taken a critical step toward a democratic normalcy that it has never known.

Eschewing the Big Plans of her time, Jane Jacobs believed that urban renewal began with the countless hopes and dreams of a city’s individuals.

Why Armenia’s Velvet Revolution has not perturbed Moscow.