Elizabeth Currid thinks New York’s fashion, art and music scene is as economically important as Wall Street. It isn’t.

John J. Hamre talks with Joseph Nye and Richard Armitage.

There’s more to Joseph Schumpeter than “creative destruction.”

The next president will have to adopt less expansive methods in the Middle East, and accomplish more.

One woman’s tale of a year spent fighting poppy cultivation and policy incoherence in southern Afghanistan.

Blistering heat, IEDs and highly irregular officers: working with the Iraqi Army in Ninewa province.

The AKP’s election victories are good news for Muslim liberalism.

The story behind Argentina’s newest power couple.

Nicolas Sarkozy ran on a platform of breaking with the
French status quo, and—sacrebleu!—he won.

Three books on Alexis de Tocqueville pay homage, sort of.