Our policy of “strategic ambiguity”—in which neither China nor Taiwan can be sure whether the United States will intervene in a conflict—has outlived its usefulness.

To partner with a predator is to surrender. Some European diplomats are playing a dangerous game.

It’s not solely or even mostly Trump; it’s the EU’s inability to get its act together.

After 50 years, the Social Democrats want to sabotage Berlin’s role in NATO’s nuclear deterrent force by invoking wild-eyed Donald Trump. But who wants to part with America’s strategic umbrella?

The endless loop of lockdown highlights something we had lost long before coronavirus: our sense of past, present, and future.

In 1947, we could afford to give containment a try. Today, a defensive stance will not cut it.

Coronavirus has exposed the inadequacies of Russia’s top-down system. Here are a couple of scenarios for how it will fare in the months ahead.

It’s not about small versus big government, it’s about competent government. The United States needs a top-shelf world-class bureaucracy. Now.

In medicine, there’s often a temptation to rely on neat rules and tidy algorithms. That temptation can be deadly, especially when treating the novel coronavirus.

There are many similarities. But also one big difference.