The U.S.-UK alliance is on weaker footing than ever. If the anti-American Labour leader makes it to Downing Street, it could well break for good.

Russia has laid the groundwork to pressure the European Union with surging gas prices and supply shortages next year, but the longer a new gas crisis goes on, the greater the chance it will cost Russia dearly. Will Moscow or Brussels blink first?

How Marx explains the corporate embrace of women’s rights and the transgendered—and what will come next.

Angela Merkel’s CDU will soon have to choose between competing with AfD for the hearts of law-and-order conservatives, or with the Greens for the hearts of urban liberals. Doing both may not be possible.

Why is the Russian leader so good at playing a weak hand against the United States and Europe? How much is him? How much is us?

President Abraham Lincoln popularized the phrase for Americans in his First Inaugural Address. But he did not coin it.

Tiny Moldova remains stuck between East and West—but an unprecedented new coalition offers a chance for change within its borders and beyond.

The people of Hong Kong have done the world a service by dealing a setback to Beijing’s global anti-democratic agenda. The U.S. should back them up.

Roderick Beaton’s sweeping, sympathetic history of modern Greece illustrates the tension between two kinds of nationalism—and ultimately, between two kinds of freedom.

A new book is as sharp and precise as any top secret briefing on Russia’s authoritarian President might be. But for all the great detail, it gets part of the big picture wrong.