Whether by mistake or design, Western sanctions have created both winners and losers in Russia, setting up an inter-elite competition that Putin may find hard to control.

Who is the Spanish prosecutor fighting the Russian mafia state?

Putin has done nothing—repeat nothing—to warrant a softer approach from the West.

How might we do the memory of the dearly departed writer justice?

Kim Jong-un may promise Donald Trump the moon when the two meet on Singapore’s Santosa Island. But he won’t deliver. History provides some key clues why North Korea will not part with its nukes.

A new world is emerging. The collective sense in Washington—by no means limited to Trump—is that Western idealism has become unmanageable.

Russia’s compromise proposal for Syria’s south appears to lack Iranian buy-in—and it is primarily Tehran’s calculations that will decide whether the Israel-Iran conflict spirals out of control.

Libya has taken a critical step toward a democratic normalcy that it has never known.

Sanctions on Russia are not achieving their desired result for a whole slew of reasons. We should keep them in place anyway.

Eschewing the Big Plans of her time, Jane Jacobs believed that urban renewal began with the countless hopes and dreams of a city’s individuals.