Perverse Federal policy incentives stemming from the "war on drugs" are overwhelming Americans' Fourth Amendment rights.

John Coltrane's stunning musical output in 1965 is open to deeper examination, thanks to a new studio archive release.

The old debate between W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington lives on, but the terms have been flipped on their heads.

The "great (colonial) American novel" was written more than half a century ago. John Barth's 1960 masterpiece, The Sot Weed Factor, keeps improving with age.

American prosperity and security are linked to the ability of financial markets to stimulate invention and innovation.

Russia and America are natural allies in the north Pacific.

The rise of Germany is reconfiguring the former Warsaw Pact zone as both the United States and the European Union struggle over a crisis of political economy.

The ambitions of post-Cold War U.S. policy in Central Europe have hit a wall.

Mark Leibovich's This Town is a symptom of the same Beltway insider disease it aims to describe.

There's a lot more than meets the eye in the argument between merchants and banks over who pays debit card swipe fees.