For three years Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his defense minister, Ehud Barak, seemed to be united in urging an early…
Amid all the grandstanding about drawing a “red line” that Iran shouldn’t cross in its uranium enrichment program, a different kind of line…
Book abstract: The two-volume Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics fills a gap in scholarship on an increasingly important field within…
Next week marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis — arguably the most dangerous moment in modern history. During 13…
The cartoon of a bomb that Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu displayed two weeks ago at the UN has become a target of ridicule. Israeli…
At their conventions last month, both the Republican and Democratic parties declared that the United States is not in decline. The very…
Whenever I buy something from IKEA — a bookshelf for the kids, a storage unit for the basement — the domestic bliss that was promised in…
As the violent anti-American protests in the Muslim world subside, those in the region and in the U.S. are wondering whether the upheaval…
It has long been accepted wisdom that Americans “don’t know much about history, don’t know much geography”— to recall the words of a golden…
Debates about global justice have traditionally fallen into two camps. Statists believe that principles of justice can only be held among…