How to temper idealism with the demands of responsible statecraft—without abandoning our commitment to democracy and human rights? This is the question facing America’s foreign policy hands as they look beyond the Trump presidency.

If current projections hold, Beijing will be the big loser in Taiwan’s presidential election this Saturday—and the United States will have a golden opportunity.

A new book by Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes offers a provocative—if not entirely persuasive—answer.

In our death-fearing age, the artwork of a Jewish-American master—overlooked in his own time but the subject of a new exhibit at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts—has much to teach us.

This is the second time Secretary Pompeo has cancelled a trip to the country, leaving its embattled president high and dry.

To be a European great power, Russia needs to be a player in the Mediterranean—and it is gradually but steadily becoming one.

In the conflict between capitalism and communism, capitalism won. But its triumph didn’t herald the end of history—just the next phase of it.

As everyone knows, the evening of December 31 is New Year’s Eve. But why is December 31 New Year’s Eve? And why is the next year the number 2020?

Almost certainly it will—for now. But Donald Trump is not the sole cause of its recent travails, and its long-term perpetuation is anything but assured.

Amid all the tentpoles and remakes, some genuine cinematic imagination found its way onto screens large and small this year.