For several years now, scholars have argued that the world is experiencing a “democratic recession.”
The public conversation this past week was dominated by a book about a man who is obsessed with winning, President Donald Trump.
Only a man who is deeply worried about his own strength would talk as much as Donald Trump does about the danger of appearing weak.
For those few people left who still believe Donald Trump is unconventional but canny, that there is a method to the madness, the revelations of last week...
For 70 years, since the creation of Israel, the U.S. has involved itself in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, often putting the Jewish state’s interests above...
It has grown impossible not to recognize that Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have reached the final stretch in their bid to wipe out the Palestinian...
The recent exchange between Joe Stiglitz and Larry Summers about “secular stagnation” and its relation to the tepid economic recovery after the 2008-2009...
When I was 8 years old, a family friend told my father that he thought I was destined for leadership. My dad never let me forget that heady observation, and...
Imagine a bully who’s pounding your head against a wall.
As the Syrian tragedy lurches toward a bloody final showdown in Idlib province, the Trump administration is struggling to check Russia and the Syrian regime...
The best thing that can be said about President Donald Trump’s latest trade initiative is that it moves the U.S. back toward the kind of agreements Trump...
John McCain’s death offers a moment to think about the insurgency in the GOP that vexed him during his final decade as a politician, and that produced in...
Shares in strongman leaders seem to be falling.
The concept of democracy, strength and power of the people (demos – people; kratos – force, power), that was born in the bosom of the city of Athens, and more...
When Mike Pompeo became secretary of state on May 1, he advised his new colleagues at Foggy Bottom: “I want the State Department to get its swagger back.”
Will the Pentagon, with its 30-year planning cycle for building ships, still be launching aircraft carriers in 2048 – even though they’re highly vulnerable to...
Donald Trump campaigned as someone who wanted to get America out of the Middle East.
Koreans have a saying that helps explain the recent upbeat exchanges between Washington, Seoul and Pyongyang: “Say pretty things to hear pretty things.”
Heading toward the midterm elections, President Trump is playing the politics of division more recklessly than ever.