What should worry us most about artificial intelligence: losing our jobs to cheaper labor or losing our lives to killer robots? The real threat may lie in yet another danger: losing our minds.

For China’s revanchist nationalists, the Hong Kong protests are as much an opportunity as they are a threat.

Sixty years on, Walter M. Miller Jr.’s post-apocalyptic novel, A Canticle for Leibowitz, offers a poignant rebuke to the political extremists of our own time.

The legacy of Iran’s efforts to shape the Middle East stretches back even before the revolution. A retired Israeli Brigadier General reviews what is known about the influential Shiite cleric’s murder, who was behind it—and what might have been.

China’s naval expansion and commercial push into Europe are aimed at redefining the global trade and security system to the detriment of the democratic West. Europe and the U.S. need to wake up to the challenge.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s Commission on Unalienable Rights isn’t about rolling back abortion and same-sex marriage, as some critics contend. It’s about resisting the modern trend of conflating civil rights with human rights in the service of parochial political claims.

The Trump Administration has cozied up to autocrats and been silent about, if not complicit in, violations of human rights abroad. And now it wants to redefine “unalienable rights”?

Intellectual humility is a time-honored virtue we can learn to cultivate—and one that’s also vital to a healthy democratic politics.

Paul Robeson, the towering figure of American arts, athletics, and civil rights activism, was also an unapologetic Stalinist. Failing to acknowledge this checkered legacy ultimately does a disservice to the goals he fought for.

WaPo’s Beijing bureau chief during the Tiananmen massacre looks back on his reporting of the 1989 student-led protests and the Chinese Communist Party crackdown.