Back to the USSR? Not at all. This is just the Putin regime’s latest means of suppressing dissent.

The ascent to the presidency of a figure like Trump would require a cascade of institutional failures. Many of these failures have already happened.

A Russian businessman, who is suing Gazprom and Lukoil, opens up about the Panama Papers, shady dealings in Putin’s Saint Petersburg of the 1990s, and the Russian President’s bluffing strategy.

The Russian President is said to be very unhappy with how an influential, privately-owned Russian business media outlet is covering the story. A crackdown is underway.

The move toward democracy in Burma was hailed by many of the usual naive Westerners as a fairy tale.

Why Alexander Hamilton is a safe choice for liberal elites in the age of Obama.

Just as manufacturing and information processing in clerical occupations are collapsing in the advanced countries, these sources of employment are drying up in the third world as well.

EU-Turkey refugee summit reveals deep splits—but important progress in one place.

Obama administration Treasury officials want to discriminate against holders of Puerto Rico’s general obligation bonds and give retired public employees a better deal.

It’s possible to imagine a scenario where the Supreme Court gradually hemorrhages legitimacy even as it accumulates more and more power. That would be a dangerous combination.