Kim Jong-un may promise Donald Trump the moon when the two meet on Singapore’s Santosa Island. But he won’t deliver. History provides some key clues why North Korea will not part with its nukes.

A new world is emerging. The collective sense in Washington—by no means limited to Trump—is that Western idealism has become unmanageable.

Sanctions on Russia are not achieving their desired result for a whole slew of reasons. We should keep them in place anyway.

Meanwhile, U.S.-Egypt ties are treading water, with vital diplomatic posts still unfilled.

Despite all the diminishment, denial, and deflection, the evidence is mounting that Russian interference may have tipped the 2016 election.

A strange campaign is afoot to cleanse the reputations of several oligarchs targeted by the latest round of Russia sanctions. Don’t buy into it.

Where does it come from, this Russian need to portray the West as either ideal or enemy?

The forms of social authority capable of motivating individuals to engage in acts of violence and terror are not constant across all societies. Differing social structures, as well as different cultures associated with them, affect which modes of persuasion and manipulation work best to generate the worst sorts of behavior.

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Assuming that the current political situation reflects something deeper about our current politics, what will our democracy look like in the future?