Don Vito Corleone, Don Licio Lucchesi, Hyman Roth, and the coming international realignment.

A jazz partnership for the ages, in the space of an evening.

Daniel Lee’s new book about his surprise discovery of an SS officer’s hidden files gives us a rare look into the lives of the countless bureaucratic enablers who kept the Nazi machine running.

David Stasavage’s new global history of democracy argues that it is neither a Western invention nor as fragile as today’s cynics think.

Calls are growing on both left and right for government to rein in Big Tech. There is a better way—drawn from, of all things, the comic book industry.

Republican tax-cutting, new Democratic fiscal thinking, partisan tribalism, and our shrinking political center have made deficit hawks an endangered species on both the left and the right. Where this takes us next is anyone’s guess.

Catherin Belton’s new book lifts the veil on Russia’s decades-long influence operations in the United States and United Kingdom.

If there is ever to be a revival of centrist politics, its advocates must come to terms with the conditions that enabled populists to rise on the right and the left.

The Democratic Senator from Rhode Island on offshore finance, its links to global corruption, terrorism and crime, and the ways American laws and professionals are enabling them.

Being contrarian is easy. Sticking with it is the hard part, as Maria Golia’s new book on the jazz saxophonist shows.