Congress’s failure to pass a farm bill this year owes much to a grand but outdated political bargain pairing rural and urban interests.

We’ve long assumed that fraying families are a natural consequence of secularization. What if it’s the other way around?

Texas is challenging California for the right to be called the harbinger of the nation’s future. How does its claim hold up?

What we remember has a lot to do with how we remember it.

What do the spray-painted New York subway cars of the 1980s have in common with the graffiti-covered walls of the Arab Spring?

Turkey’s recent civil strife, seemingly centered on the future of Gezi Park, has laid bare some deep historical wounds.

The ongoing debate about counterinsurgency tactics is beside the point: American military efforts will continue to founder so long as political goals and military tactics are mismatched.

Taking a road trip from Dakar to Bamako is sufficient to demolish the premises of the French campaign in Mali.

A modest proposal for more effective U.S. assistance for India’s burgeoning security problem.

New adventures in America’s faith-based foreign policy.