Did Bush’s “forward strategy for freedom” birth the Arab Spring? Umm, no.

The outcome of any U.S.-Iranian military conflict is far too complex to predict.

Robin Fox explains how cousin marriage in Iraq relates to the meaning of Antigone.

Brazilians too readily accept recycled images of themselves.

Gimmicks can’t mask basic political disagreement; they only make things worse.

Constructive moderation is the lodestone of Brazil’s way in the world.

Europe’s student protests point to deeper social and political dilemmas.

U.S.-Brazilian cooperation needs careful tending in changing times.

Brazil’s former President talks with the AI’s Walter Russell Mead about his country’s emergence as a democracy and an economic powerhouse, and how a man of the Left got labelled as a man of the right.

Deradicalization programs are justified by their indirect effects.