Balancing resilience with openness while keeping fear at bay is no easy feat. We may all soon have to learn how to do it.

Vaclav Havel’s historic speech to Congress is a reminder that we all bear responsibility for effecting change.

The Department of Veterans Affairs desperately needs to align its funding with the changing needs of its veterans. History shows that will be a bruising political fight.

Some lessons for older, more established democracies taken from the struggles of liberals fighting the good fight in younger and less stable democracies.

To understand how tomorrow’s technology will change our lives, we need to look at what yesterday’s futurists got wrong—and right.

While there is blame to go around, Trump and his Congressional enablers are overwhelmingly responsible for weakening the foundations of the republic. And the effects of America’s democratic decay are already being felt beyond its own borders.

Thinking about Brexit as a competition between cosmopolitanism and nationalism within Britain misses a much more important dimension: It’s the European Union that’s in crisis.

Successfully fighting disinformation and influence operations of authoritarian adversaries requires understanding how these efforts have been developed by—and are run out of—the intelligence services.

The country of Georgia is at an unhappy crossroads, with its institutions increasingly under the thumb of a single man. The United States can and should apply more pressure.

Singapore’s elite-driven, technocratic, and thoroughly paternalistic democracy has complex roots. Understanding the challenges it faces can help us better understand how the best-meaning leaders can run into trouble.