Candor, humility, and a greater openness to a variety of approaches—three ways to make economics great again as a serious field of study.

When countries refuse to look clearly at the past, they are like neurotics controlled by compulsions they cannot understand.

A response to Ben Judah’s exposé of the Frenchman’s failings.

The social media giant is to technology what Russia has been to geopolitics.

Why have Germany and the UK found themselves thrown so badly off-balance by the insurgent Trump Administration while France has been relatively unmoved?

There are lessons to be learned for the United States in studying democratic decline abroad, but it’s also easy to take the comparisons too far.

By offering cooperation on China, he might be able to get concessions out of Donald Trump. But will it be enough?

The President’s language usage reflects less how we will use language than ways that we actually already do.

The Mar-a-Lago summit exposed the limits of Abe’s personal rapport with Trump, and the costs of Trump’s transactional approach—but if Abe plays his cards right, it could become a positive turning point for the alliance.

If we misuse terms, our thinking becomes muddled. Take the suddenly ubiquitous phrase: “new Cold War.”