To see trouble coming from a greater distance, you need to step back and get perspective from history.

The space between the cosmopolitan and progressive politics of the left and the vulgar nationalism of the populist right is shrinking. My own recent experience running for office attests to it.

The coronavirus crisis is underscoring the need to re-examine old ideologies about globalization and modernization.

And not just by squashing free inquiry. Campus tumult also threatens public funding.

Like all political identities, our current divisions are “imagined”—sentimental and tied to expressive symbolism. But that does not make them “imaginary,” or any less consequential.

Having succeeded beyond its expectations, Singapore doesn’t seem to know what to do next—except to keep on driving ahead, pedal to the metal.

Some lessons for older, more established democracies taken from the struggles of liberals fighting the good fight in younger and less stable democracies.

In Germany and the rest of Europe, centrist parties are losing ground.

Jack Goldsmith’s new book is a courageous, poignant, and personal portrait of Charles “Chuckie” O’Brien—the man long-rumored to have had a hand in disappearing Jimmy Hoffa.

China is energetically sowing divisions between states and the Federal government.