In the EU leadership contest, the Visegrád countries have succeeded in stymying their opponents but have failed utterly to advance their own interests.

This week, Donald Trump repeated an American mantra: “Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.” But in due time it will, because it can, and because it has long seen the Bomb to be in its national interest. But is there an upside?

A bestselling crime writer in exile discusses why he left Moscow, how fiction and history shed light on Putin’s Russia, and why implementing democracy in Russia is still an uphill battle.

How Marx explains the corporate embrace of women’s rights and the transgendered—and what will come next.

How can we encourage the public to consume less “junk” news? It won’t be easy.

Angela Merkel’s CDU will soon have to choose between competing with AfD for the hearts of law-and-order conservatives, or with the Greens for the hearts of urban liberals. Doing both may not be possible.

Why is the Russian leader so good at playing a weak hand against the United States and Europe? How much is him? How much is us?

And another Republican had won.

President Abraham Lincoln popularized the phrase for Americans in his First Inaugural Address. But he did not coin it.

The rhetoric flying around about school busing after the most recent Democratic debates was beyond sloppy. And the actual history is far from tidy.