How a Quaker lass invented the most famous board game in American history, and how a big, wolfish company came to own it.

America’s charitable foundations are benign, influential—and endangered.

Comments by Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Evgeny Primakov, Bruce Jentleson, James Traub, Tod Lindberg, and David Yang. Ivo Daalder & James Lindsay reply.

Relations among states are characterized by anarchy, relations within states by civil order, right? Not any more.

The assertion of U.S. sovereignty, coupled with a pledge to stop interfering in the affairs of others, will produce a more peaceable world.

Technological change and small-town nostalgia are combining to revive America’s Heartland.

The rise of cities shaped Western history. Now it may be reshaping the world.

A sometimes realist takes issue with a sometimes idealist over a long-deceased Greek.

Most American towns put hideous power lines up in the air, where they are predictably battered by storms. Why?

How Culture Theory happened, and what it means.