As the modern scientific project increasingly allows us to manipulate our own natures, it is awakening challenges and paradoxes to which there are no simple answers.

How a lack of humility and scientific rigor have led public health activists into dubious pronouncements on an ever-expanding array of controversial issues, from gun control to gender equality to foreign policy.

A normal, sane legislature could fix Social Security forever and end government shutdowns in a single day. But our two-party monopoly Congress is neither normal nor sane.

Diagnosing the bureaucratic causes of public failure, economic repression, and voter alienation.

A speculative look into the Kremlin elites’ thought process in the struggle with the West.

Recognizing Guaidó as the legitimate President is a bold strategy, but in the long run the United States will need to untangle the networks of criminality and corruption propping up Maduro.

Modern representative democracy is unthinkable without innovations pioneered by the medieval Catholic Church.

Andrew Roberts’s Churchill biography confronts his subject’s central paradox: How the ardent believer in the goodness of British imperialism became the stalwart champion of liberal democracy.

Barring a Trump bow out or a Democratic misstep in the primary, 2020 is likely to be even worse for the GOP than 2018.

Four steps President Xi could take to produce a win-win outcome for the current round of U.S.-China trade negotiations.