What have we learned during the past year, and how does it stack up against what was predicted?

A short list of things you should have read last year.

Our top ten essays from a year of political upheaval.

The best movies of the year shared a willingness to bridge sensibilities, scramble genres, and confound expectations.

NAFTA should be reconstituted and replaced. The trick is how to deepen U.S.-Canadian integration without leaving Mexico completely out in the cold.

How Putin’s domestic political worries fuel Russian interference in U.S. politics.

The President’s new National Security Strategy is encouragingly “low-energy,” but is it credible?

This week, Cyril Ramaphosa took the reins of a deeply divided ANC after a bitter leadership contest. Can he renew the promise of South Africa?

Populism is a great campaign tool in the age of social media—but not necessarily much more than that.

Our institutions of higher learning have fostered a new paternalism.