Jair Bolsonaro will not be the cause of democratic decay in Brazil. He’s better understood as a symptom of it.

What happens when the stories through which we make sense of the world collapse?

Adam Tooze reveals the unanswered questions still roiling European politics.

At times a villain to both nativists and progressives, Columbus and his legacy will continue to elude us.

Google’s newfound moral flexibility has real, tangible costs.

Humanitarian criticism of the war in Yemen should not blind us to the serious threat posed by the Houthis and the strategic case for U.S. involvement.

The debate we should be having on Brett Kavanaugh turns on a crucial question: What sorts of youthful transgressions are forgivable, and which are disqualifying, for which jobs?

The clock is ticking, and the odds of a messy British exit from the European Union are only rising. The stakes for Washington, too, are enormous.

Could dealing with the plague of identity theft fraud become a basis for a new, centrist effort at immigration reform?

The shrill cry that American democracy is dying rests on a misdiagnosis. If anything, we have introduced too much democracy in the wrong places.