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.

Yes, Putin still sits in the Kremlin—but after 20 years in power and a long summer of protests, there are signs that it’s the siloviki who are now calling the shots.

The threat of impeachment being employed more often might just put some ballast back into our constitutional system.

Challenges to America’s role abroad are more likely to lead to a strategic restoration than a realist revolution.

Brexit is a sign of deeper trends that are roiling the European continent. Improving the health of our democracies will be critical if Europe wants to express an alternative to the illiberalism and unruly populism that are taking hold.

Those who argue we have an immigration police state may well be right. But the alternative is an ever-larger pool of exploited labor at the bottom of U.S. society.

America is large, and it contains multitudes—but in our age of stark polarization, there’s a basic American Deal that desperately needs representation.

Walt Whitman was pen pals with Emerson, idolized Lincoln, and sought to “sing America” by finding grandeur in the everyday. Two hundred years later, he’s still an American original.

Melville’s classic story is a blast of truth from 1853 on behalf of coddled lives in 2019.

More by accident than design, the U.S.-UK partnership is at a potentially ruinous inflection point.