Free trade unions have long been global democracy’s most powerful accelerator. How did we forget that?

Think you can read this without checking your email?

Democracy promotion isn’t “interference” into sovereign affairs of autocracies. It’s legal, and laudable.

Peter Robinson and John Kornblum on Reagan’s “Tear Down This Wall” speech.

Bureaucratic sclerosis is the biggest threat to America’s national security.

Two new books about what’s wrong with the CIA get it (mostly) right.

The NSC/interagency system can’t cope with a multi-dimensional strategic environment.

Crusader for the poor, master golf course designer. Same person.

The AI‘s chairman tells Putin and Nazarbayev a thing or two in St. Petersburg.

We’ve been what we’ve eaten, evidently, for some ten millennia.