Eliot Cohen’s new book presents a nuanced and compelling defense of hard power.

Regular readers know the answer: not very effective at all.

…and that may not be such a bad thing.

As Donald Trump takes the oath, an essay on the historical forces that have shaped this moment by Walter Russell Mead.

Clearly a lot of frustration for the outgoing American President has been stored up in the Russian psyche.

If the term “intellectual” only encompasses thinkers on the Left, then it is only natural that right-wing populists would turn it into a slur.

Paul Ryan will target $40 in private investment for every $1 his caucus approves in infrastructure spending.

Many of Myanmar’s long-suffering Rohingyas are now turning to internationally funded Islamist insurgents to resist the government.

Texas’s Permian Basin has been called “the crown jewel of the world’s oil and gas industry.”

What’s happening in the Ivory Coast is a story of disappointment, ambition, calculated violence, and betrayal.