During the Arab Spring, it looked like social media would create democracies abroad. Today, it looks like social media is undermining democracy here at home.

No matter the outcome, tomorrow’s parliamentary elections in the Netherlands will widen the divisions between European elites and publics.

Japan is deploying a warship to the South China Sea while the Philippines pushes back against Chinese encroachments in the east.

Since I wrote “The Television Presidency,” I have been noticing more examples of several points made in the essay. This is normal—it’s just the well-known cognitive phenomenon of the evoked set at work. Nearly everyone experiences this from time to time. Learn a new word or become familiar with a new pop-culture datum, for example, […]

Modi’s party has been vindicated with landslide victories in crucial state elections, but the future poses new governance challenges.

Big U.S. companies like GM and Verizon are paying insurance companies large sums to take over their pension plans in an effort to offload risk.

Turkey and the West are undergoing an increasingly acrimonious divorce, with both sides shedding former illusions about their shared values and interests.

“Fix it first” is a promising approach to infrastructure.

The best solution is to phase out defined-benefit pension systems and replace them with the type of 401(k) plans that are now the norm in the private sector.

With the election of Donald Trump shifting traditional Republican views of Putin, Russia is pulling out all the stops to make common cause with conservatives.