How the “Xi change” in China is causing an invisible earthquake.

The President committed a double folly this week: starting a trade war against China while pleasing Russia and Iran with a promised pull-out from Syria.

Are the grievances tearing our societies apart at this hyper-polarized moment insurmountable? A week with some AfD voters and politicians gave me a measure of hope.

Hungary emerged from the collapse of European communism as the poster child for seamless transitions. Today, its future looks more than a little like its pre-communist, authoritarian past.

America’s favorite Frenchman is not what he seems.

The changes wrought by scientific-technical innovation are far outrunning the capacity of our temperamentally conservative institutions to keep up with them.

What is new is not identity politics, but politics as identity—and it’s driving a culture of grievance.

Thomas Wright’s book from last year correctly diagnosed our foreign policy predicament. The extent to which his prescriptions are unworkable in the Age of Trump tells us even more.

The whole grand “Western” narrative of the postwar era is coming unglued. Can we piece together a new one?

Should corporations pursue more than profits?