How capitalism pushes people to political extremes, and how we might save it while rebuilding the center.

Our problems with Turkey aren’t due to Trump, or Obama, or any other President. Put the blame where it belongs: with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his choices.

Successive boycotts of Israel and its people have done incalculable harm to Arab countries. It’s time to move forward to a post-boycott region.

For all her insights, the leftist icon had a blind spot on race—with a trendy pessimism that blinded her to the civil rights movement and the reality of how people actually live.

Forget Macron’s interviews and Trump’s tweets. Europe’s lack of consensus on China is shaping Transatlantic relations.

How life under a theocratic government, upbringing in a Marxist-Leninist household, and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq turned a young man into a neocon.

Abdel-Wahab al-Saadi once made a name for himself by avoiding politics. Now, he’s the face of a protest movement that could upend Iraq’s fragile peace.

The defining feature of the impeachment hearings has been an inability to agree on the contours of reality—which bodes ill for the future of liberal democracy. In the new print issue, Susan B. Glasser and David J. Kramer talk democracy in the age of Trump. Also in the issue: the China challenge, plus race, culture, and identity in America.

Next year, the Social Security Trust Fund will shrink for the first time since 1982. It’s worth recalling how a crisis was averted then—and the lessons for legislative compromise in our own time.

Forget the Hollywood treatment. Harriet Tubman’s real life was stranger than fiction—and shows how to reconcile seemingly contradictory visions of American history.