An unsentimental checklist for assessing an ally's value in parlous times.

The different social “locations” of the armies of Egypt and Tunisia explain the divergent paths of the recent upheavals in those two countries.

The history of milk—from sacred nourishment to taboo drink to our modern, dairy-saturated abundance.

Untutored enthusiasts of the Jasmine Revolutions could take a few lessons from the Color Revolutions. (You remember those, right?)

Alexander Girard turned the act of displaying folk art into an art form all its own.

Amazighité is rapidly coming down from the Atlas Mountains. Never heard of it? You will.

U.S. oceans policy is dangerously adrift.

The spearhead of the Transatlantic relationship is now undermining it.

Transforming America's Asian alliances into an integrated net-centric system.

David Brooks’s attempt to popularize social science’s recent harvest of insight succeeds, mostly.