The city of Chicago is conducting a long, bloody experiment in what happens to a gang-ridden municipality in the absence of effective policing.
It is keeping the morgue ...
Try as he might this late in the game, President Barack Obama's Israel policy should go down in history as a failure.
Although some of the worst accusations against him ...
If the Senate confirms one of its own, Alabama’s Jeff Sessions, as the new attorney general, which appears likely, one of his first orders of business should be dealing ...
Despite sloppy reporting that repeatedly said otherwise, often accompanied by Page 1 headlines, Donald Trump never called for Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s e-mails. H...
Two decades ago, I wrote an essay in Foreign Affairs that described an unusual and worrying trend — the rise of illiberal democracy. Around the world, dictators were bei...
“Optimism, n. — The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything is good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong...
One insistent question that will shape 2017 is whether we’re witnessing the gradual decay of the post-World War II international order, dominated by the economic and mil...
Viewing 2016 in retrospect — doing so is unpleasant, but less so than was living through it — the year resembles a china shop after a visit from an especially maladroit ...
We’ve come a long way from Daniel Patrick Moynihan excoriating the U.N.’s 1975 “Zionism is racism” resolution in one of the finer exhibits of righteous indignation in th...
“When the chips are down, I have Israel’s back.”
— Barack Obama AIPAC conference, March 4, 2012
The audience — overwhelmingly Jewish, passionately pro-Israel and supreme...
