India’s purchase of an Israeli anti-tank missile system says a lot about the warming relations between the two countries, and it also shows that India is cautious to get too far into bed with the U.S. on defense.

Seven things to know about the crisis, Moscow’s and Kyiv’s actions, and the West’s response.

The top U.S. commander in South Korea warned that the north might have nuclear warheads to put on top of its missiles, disagreeing with the President’s assessment. If he’s right, U.S. strategy in Asia just got a whole lot more complicated.

Political Order and Political Decay is out, and Frank Fukuyama is coming to DC to discuss it with our editor Adam Garfinkle. Come join us!

The children’s refugee “crisis” on the U.S.-Mexico border is but a symptom of the real crisis: denial and cowardice among U.S. politicians of both parties.

The ACA has been underwhelming—in terms of enrollment, access to care, cost control, and health outcomes. Even those who support the law should be honest enough to admit that, at least so far, it has not been as successful as President Obama predicted.

Obama as Carter comparisons continue to roll in, from the Left as well as the Right.

John Allen, the White House’s point man on countering ISIS, has said that taking Damascus is not a part of U.S. strategy. Our Sunni allies think otherwise, and they won’t be happy to hear this.

Nigeria doesn’t share Syria’s experience with state-building, which will make dealing with Boko Haram in some ways more difficult than dealing with ISIS, even if the latter is a more direct threat to the West. That’s likely to have costs—and not only for Nigeria.

Dilma Rousseff has narrowly beat out the center-right candidate Aecio Neves in Brazil’s presidential election. But Rousseff’s gain could be Brazil’s loss as her Worker’s Party enters its fourth consecutive term of presidential power.