America’s great age of growth is over and discontentment drives our politics. Yet there’s hope of modest economic advances, if only we clear the way.

The post-Cold War era is over. The U.S. finds itself in a new phase of security competition—one that will pose a unique challenge when it comes to coalition management.

If history is to continue to bend in the direction President Obama favors, it will need ongoing assistance from the United States.

In the age of drones, football is war between individual men.

The architects of the Eurozone privileged aspirational politics over economic realities. Reality is now playing trump.

The President says this is the best deal available. He’s right; it’s the best deal he could get—absent a credible threat to use force.

The framework agreement with Iran recalls the era of arms control negotiations with the Soviet Union, but the differences rather than the similarities between the two periods are what make this an illuminating comparison.

Fouad Ajami was an enthusiastic immigrant and U.S. citizen, but he never lost his longing for progress in the lands he left behind.

But the United States may nevertheless come to play a greater role in the world of the sport.

Fouad Ajami, author, teacher, public intellectual, died yesterday at 68. His work will remain vital for those wishing to understand the Arab world of the late 20^th and early 21^st centuries.