Next year, the Social Security Trust Fund will shrink for the first time since 1982. It’s worth recalling how a crisis was averted then—and the lessons for legislative compromise in our own time.

Forget the Hollywood treatment. Harriet Tubman’s real life was stranger than fiction—and shows how to reconcile seemingly contradictory visions of American history.

Why Eisenhower’s “Great Equation” approach to national security strategy should guide our response to China today.

A conversation with Martin Wolf of the Financial Times and former Italian Treasury official Lorenzo Cadogno on the politics of immigration, demographic decline, and the self-imposed prison of the euro.

What really drives China today—is it Xi Jinping himself, the Belt & Road Initiative, old habits of statecraft, or the regime’s authoritarian nature? Four recent books help us sort through the morass.

Does economics have something to tell us about religion? Probably, but far less than it has to tell us about other issues.

We can learn a great deal by reading—and critiquing—the work of Walter Lippmann.

A new biography about Israel’s founder shows that the idea of one political Jewish people is a myth, an illusion.

As Branko Milanović notes in his new book, capitalism convincingly triumphed over socialism at the end of the Cold War. That does not mean that struggles between the emerging variants of capitalism—liberal-meritocratic and political—will be any less fierce.

Trump’s ongoing bromance with Turkey’s authoritarian leader notwithstanding, Congress and the Administration must act to make clear that the United States isn’t giving Erdoğan a blank check to act in the Middle East.