A believer and an atheist seek out their antitheses. Do they meet somewhere in the middle, or pass in the murk of half-baked pseudo-syntheses?

Even lawyers and doctors may soon face competition from robots. But the technology revolution also offers the promise of a richer, fuller life for more people than ever before.

Things aren’t quiet on any front these days, even outside of Iraq. Witness the recent, deadly religious riots in Sri Lanka, the continuous persecution of the Rohingya in Burma, and Sunday’s terrorist attack in Kenya.

President Obama ended a transit strike in Philadelphia by executive order. Democrats are increasingly forced to choose between the interests of consumers of government services and the unionized providers of those services.

In Nigeria, Boko Haram and #BringBackOurGirls are just one side of the story. As in much of Africa, terrorism, lawlessness, and state powerlessness exist alongside economic growth and rapidly declining poverty.

Another day, another feckless climate conference ends in deadlock. Delegates to talks in Bonn are returning home empty handed after two weeks of divisive discussions.

The Iraqi state in its historic territorial configuration is gone—solid gone, and it ain’t coming back. Time to start thinking hard about next steps.

Does liberal democracy depend on the existence of ideological and civilizational rivals to spur it into cycles of reinvention and renewal?

Starbucks announces a plan to provide free online education to its workers, in partnership with Arizona State University. It’s a feel-good story, but the move is about more than good publicity.

Walter Russell Mead writes in the WSJ that America can’t expect the world to follow its “optimistic script,” which developed over two centuries of uncommon good fortune.