The attempted putsch and the purge that followed will leave Turkey weaker for years to come.

American ideas about impending democratic transitions across the Middle East are almost always delusional fantasies, whether embraced by overconfident neocons in the Age of Bush or by overconfident liberal internationalists in the Age of Obama.

Greece puts chief statistician on trial for not cooking the books.

Caracas sits on massive reserves of oil, but mismanagement and cash shortages are crimping production.

In Tristan und Isolde at Bayreuth, a tale of love versus society is undermined by the director.

With an aging population and the prospect of an indefinite period of sluggish growth, China’s pension problems won’t go away on their own.

The blue social model is under strain across the Western world.

Chinese authorities are cracking down on celebrations of Jiang Zemin.

Brexit was supposed to herald Britain’s retreat from a global security role. Precisely the opposite is more likely to be true.

Iceland’s “Pirate Party” could take the helm after the island’s next election.