The United States had never lost a war—that is, until 1975, when it was forced to flee Saigon in humiliation after losing to what Lyndon…
Is religion a force for good or evil in world politics? How much influence does it have? Despite predictions of its decline, religion has…
Many fear that democracies are suffering from a legitimacy crisis. This book focuses on "democratic deficits," reflecting how far the…
Surveying three centuries of economic history, a Harvard professor argues for a leaner global system that puts national democracies front…
America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the 3 percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap:…
All too often government lacks the skill, the will, and the wallet to meet its missions. Schools fall short of the mark while roads and…
In the era of Kennedy and Khrushchev, power was expressed in terms of nuclear missiles, industrial capacity, numbers of men under arms, and…
Lavish spectacles such as the Beijing Olympics and Expo 2010 have raised China's global profile and echoed predictions of a rise to the…
African agriculture is currently at a crossroads, at which persistent food shortages are compounded by threats from climate change. But, as…