Two entwined truths go far to define U.S. foreign policy: We must promote democracy; and we certainly will make a hash out of it.

Are losses among regime supporters reaching an unsustainable level?

Local Democrats don’t have solutions for the magnitude of our cities’ problems. Fixing America’s cities is one of the most urgent jobs on our national to-do list.

The Obama Administration moves to reassure regional allies we had taken for granted.

As the “Second Machine Age” looms and the blue social model slips into obsolescence around the world, Latin America is especially ill-prepared, because it never really adapted to the First Machine Age all that well.

Australia’s center-right parties got a much-needed boost with a recent electoral victory in the country’s most populous state. A lot now depends on how a plan to privatize power goes.

As changes to the federal insurance premiums go into effect on April 1, we get a glimpse into the kind of sensible reform that can appeal to greens and Tea Party activists alike.

An unnamed State Department official stood on the burning deck, whence all but he had fled.

With bank runs resuming, Greece is in a trap: the very tactics Syriza was elected to enact against the EU—financial brinksmanship, bluster and blackmail—are fatally undermining the Greek economy, undercutting the government’s bargaining position.

President Obama’s record of miscalculation in the Middle East continues with Yemen going up in flames. But the White House appears unflustered.