A war in Iran will inevitably bring about the same conditions that have distorted regional and European politics for a generation.

For more than half a century, he has worked at the Washington Post, so it is understandable that he is “crushed” by recent developments at the paper. More than 300 journalists employed there have been ...

Native-born Brits are at the bottom of the UK’s legal privilege hierarchy.

The belief that change from a bad situation can only be for the better is what brought him into power in the first place. His predecessors in the job were terrible, but less terrible than he. We are ...

There is great disquiet in the United Kingdom over plans to severely curtail trial by jury. Right on cue, a trial emerged that seems to bolster the government’s case for using juries less often. On ...

No one who knows me well would say that I am short on words, unable to keep up my end of a conversation, or reluctant to speak up in a group, but I sometimes wo ...

China doesn’t need to win negotiations. It shapes the environment in which negotiations occur. That means controlling inputs, bottlenecks, and systems that persist regardless of who occupies office in ...

Costa Rican voters went to the polls earlier this month, handing a major victory to right-wing presidential candidate Laura Fernández in the first round. Fernández, the hand-picked successor of ...

Most visitors to Britain will probably head straight for Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, or Shakespeare’s Stratford. But should you wander off the tou ...

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The closest analogue for the American invasion of Afghanistan was the Soviet one 20-odd years earlier. Unlike the Soviets, American troops went in initially as invading forces, whereas the Soviets ...