Erdogan has opted to undo his own good work on the Kurdish question for the sake of power.

What the change in PM means for an increasingly politically turbulent Australia—and the Anglosphere.

If you are doomed to lose whatever you do, you might as well let your freak flag fly.

A $15 minimum wage sends a clear message to business: Sell New York bonds, stop hiring poor people, and see what you can do to move your company to a more welcoming state.

Two continuities mark the life of the longest-reigning monarch in British history: one is the presence of accelerating, transformative change in every dimension of human life; the other is the smugness of establishments who assume that the important questions have been answered, and that nothing important will ever change.

Blue states taking modest steps toward making retirement benefits portable. Red states need to think of alternative models; helping moderate and low-income people prepare for a secure retirement shouldn’t be a partisan concern.

William McKinley was probably the most successful as well as the most important president in the generation between Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.

Xi’s many enemies are looking for ways to use China’s economic and political problems to mobilize opposition to his power grab—and his economic reforms.

When it comes to safety and privacy in the internet age, the old U.S. system of balancing civil liberties, government power, and the safety of the community seems to be working even now.

Greece may have just hit upon a trick that Italy has been pulling on the EU for years: the country agrees to reforms and looks superficially busy implementing them—and all the while the bureaucracy does its best to de-fang every effort.