Syriza is proving to be incapable of serious, effective negotiations.

However manufactured, Putin’s high approval ratings do tell us something important: he’s well positioned to stick around for quite some time.

The overall situation in the aftermath of the Greek elections is a combination of a classical tragedy and Sartre’s No Exit.

Where Americans see unjustifiable rights violations, Saudis see emergency measures that America made necessary.

Prognostication is always a mug’s game, and nowhere more so than in the Middle East. Nevertheless, it’s a fun game to play, especially when the subject is a region so poorly understood by the U.S. mainstream media that it frequently gets blindsided by events.

Welcome to the new site. We have been doing some renovations. Here is what you need to know.

As the new site launches, a few words from the business side of the magazine.

The botched rollout of healthcare.gov shows why the US desperately needs reform of its public sector.

I’m taking a break from my series on governance to post the source code for an agent-based model I created called Creatures.

Fidel Castro is fading away as nature achieves what 50 years of American policy did not. The FT reports: Mr Castro of late had become a mere shadow in the background who had been neither seen nor heard from for months, leading to the latest spate of death rumours and his retort: get used to […]