The United States has plenty of ways to eliminate its dependency on imported oil. We’d better use them fast.

America needs to lead the world in leveraging the revised International Health Regulations to guard against pandemics.

Yemen is running out of oil and water, and a new front in the War on Terror may be emerging.

The sudden popularity of tattoos among the American bourgeoisie is undeniable. But what does it mean?

Russian politics are democratic in form but illiberal in substance. The reasons are instructive, and not just for Russians.

Democracy or dictatorship? Friend or foe? Russia under Vladimir Putin is all of these — and none of them.

Is Russia finished as a major power? Far from it.

A bill intended to help workers has morphed into a bureaucratic beast that endangers quality health care.

Are Jews special, or do too many people just think they are?

Understanding how and why political institutions differ between the US and Latin America is, then, key to understanding the larger puzzle of the latter region’s lagging development.