The original appeal of the Declaration of Independence.

Netanyahu’s pledge to press on with annexation in the West Bank is a high-risk, low-reward proposition for Israel.

Whatever the result of the constitutional referendum underway in Russia, Putin is increasingly a leader who has nowhere to lead.

Seventy years ago, leading lights of the free world gathered in Berlin to push back against Soviet efforts to discredit liberal values. What can their efforts teach us today?

Why is it so difficult for China and the United States to develop, find, and keep friends in the world?

Can whole societies go crazy? They can and have—but never before has a crazy society implicated pretty much the whole planet.

If we are to understand where Russia is heading, we need to ask ourselves why our past predictions about it have been proven wrong time and time again.

President Erdoğan is taking a wrecking ball to Turkey’s legal and political institutions in an effort to shut down his political opponents.

A Tiananmen Massacre survivor and former political prisoner in China reflects on how poetry helped him endure captivity, and how art can sustain us amidst social distancing.

Right now, the scientists and public health authorities are running the show, as they should. Yet the humanities can reveal to them some traps they might do well to avoid.