A strange campaign is afoot to cleanse the reputations of several oligarchs targeted by the latest round of Russia sanctions. Don’t buy into it.

Trump quitting the Iran Deal illustrates how foreign policy decision-making fundamentally changed after 2008.

Are the grievances tearing our societies apart at this hyper-polarized moment insurmountable? A week with some AfD voters and politicians gave me a measure of hope.

Why neoconservatives, liberal internationalists, and democracy activists are misreading the present moment.

Populism is a means of doing politics, not an ideology. Getting this simple fact wrong leads well-meaning people down dangerous, anti-democratic paths.

Democratic sovereignty, free speech, perfect anonymity: pick two.

Democracy is doing just fine at this populist moment. Liberalism, however, is being destroyed by its most fervent supporters.

It’s a lot like the old Afghanistan strategy, but with Trumpian characteristics.

The Republic is in bad shape—not because of Charlottesville, but because of how our politics are playing out in its aftermath.

The story is less who made the sale, but that the sale happened at all.