Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s Commission on Unalienable Rights isn’t about rolling back abortion and same-sex marriage, as some critics contend. It’s about resisting the modern trend of conflating civil rights with human rights in the service of parochial political claims.

Those most fearful of a “world government” are increasingly happy to globalize politics in a different way.

What should a religious novel look like in the age of Silicon Valley and Donald Trump? Randy Boyagoda’s riotous satire Original Prin offers an answer.

Moderates must avoid the impulse to borrow from the populists’ illiberal playbook, even as they find a way to re-imagine the institutions that once served us well.

If our democratic system is more “open” than ever before, why are today’s politics so alienating to so many?

On the merits, Trump’s push for skills-based immigration is sound policy. But he may end up discrediting it with his own bigotry.

Populism on the Right has been facilitated by the Left’s obsession with participatory democracy.

There may not be much time to avert a tragedy.

The Trump Administration has cozied up to autocrats and been silent about, if not complicit in, violations of human rights abroad. And now it wants to redefine “unalienable rights”?

That we aren’t very good at preventing humanitarian crises is no reason to ignore the moral aspect of foreign policy.