America needs to face squarely a centrally important new global reality: that the world’s population is experiencing a political awakening unprecedented in scope and intensity, with the result that the politics of populism are transforming the politics of power.

Global warming is real, and the dangers it raises are serious. Luckily, an affordable, market-based solution is at hand.

Robert Wuthnow worries that America's traditional "live and let live" approach to religious diversity isn't good enough. He seeks a more engaged pluralism, but his own analysis suggests he's not likely to get it.

A guide to the hundreds of books that have been written in the past four years about Islamist terrorism and the 9/11 attacks.