How the question of the Dalai Lama’s successor could create another hot zone of instability along China’s periphery.

Immigration is a lot more complex than the simple morality-play version we typically get from the media. If you want to understand why, try talking to your neighbors.

Hong Kong can show Xi Jinping that repressing freedom is a no-win proposition.

Putin’s return to the Kremlin in 2012 blighted Russia’s chances of peaceable evolution. That will stay so while he and his inner circle hang on to power, perhaps beyond 2024. Russia and the rest of us will suffer in consequence.

Russia has laid the groundwork to pressure the European Union with surging gas prices and supply shortages next year, but the longer a new gas crisis goes on, the greater the chance it will cost Russia dearly. Will Moscow or Brussels blink first?

How Marx explains the corporate embrace of women’s rights and the transgendered—and what will come next.

Angela Merkel’s CDU will soon have to choose between competing with AfD for the hearts of law-and-order conservatives, or with the Greens for the hearts of urban liberals. Doing both may not be possible.

The people of Hong Kong have done the world a service by dealing a setback to Beijing’s global anti-democratic agenda. The U.S. should back them up.

The West needs to focus on these fundamentals to achieve its overarching strategic objective: preventing China’s domination of Eurasia.

For all its recent setbacks, democracy still has the resources not only to resist but also to beat back the authoritarian tide.