…and the perils of believing that you have none.

In the Kavanaugh controversy, both outcomes were guaranteed to enrage half the country—but only one avoided a system-smashing incentive structure.

A series of high-profile mishaps have exposed the incompetence of Russia’s intelligence services. And yet the main threat to Putin’s rule would still come from the siloviki.

Jair Bolsonaro will not be the cause of democratic decay in Brazil. He’s better understood as a symptom of it.

At times a villain to both nativists and progressives, Columbus and his legacy will continue to elude us.

Humanitarian criticism of the war in Yemen should not blind us to the serious threat posed by the Houthis and the strategic case for U.S. involvement.

The clock is ticking, and the odds of a messy British exit from the European Union are only rising. The stakes for Washington, too, are enormous.

The shrill cry that American democracy is dying rests on a misdiagnosis. If anything, we have introduced too much democracy in the wrong places.

The EU faces a collapse in its domestic gas production. Russia claims it wants to help by providing more natural gas supplies via Nord Stream 2. Is this claim yet another example of a Russian disinformation operation in action?

A high-stakes vote is set to take place in the Western Balkans this weekend.