Robert George, longtime religious zealot and onetime Never Trumper, has reached the halls of Foggy Bottom.

The precipitous decline of France's Yellow Vest movement—like the sputtering end to Occupy Wall Street—shows why political movements need more than inchoate anger.

The State Department wants to present its new human rights project as empirical and historical. But "natural law" is as political as anything else.

When it comes to Iran, Israel, and Latin America, Democratic leaders are closer in mindset to the Trump administration than you might think.

In a paranoid age, the corroboration provided by The Intercept's latest exposé is unusual.

Bernie Sanders's presence at a revolutionary rally in 1985 needs to be evaluated in light of what was actually happening in Nicaragua and the U.S. in the 1980s.

The migrants that do arrive in the U.S. are fleeing situations exacerbated by decades of bad American foreign policy. Tariffs on Mexico would continue that pattern.

Having only a hazy idea of what, exactly, fascism consists of makes it hard to explain why fascist rhetoric needs to be excluded from public discourse.

High defense costs are one of the surest ways to hasten a great power's decline.

Narendra Modi has been reelected. In part, that's because Indian leftists, like American leftists, have been trying to imitate right-wingers rather than countering them.

She got a lot wrong. But those who fail to consider the impossible hand she was dealt are bound to have unrealistic expectations of her successor.

As the country waits for the prime minister to resign, the Brexit Party is predicted to sweep European Parliament elections, aiming to sabotage the EU before leaving it.

Northern Irish women are still restricted by legislation crafted in 1861.

With legislators and public alike focused on Saudi influence, another Gulf country's lobbying efforts are flying under the radar.

Forcing Beijing into economic reform could help it overtake the U.S. in the long run.

Headlines about Nazis could distract from a more pressing issue: current tensions within the EU.

For the first time, female voters are set to outnumber male voters in the world's largest national election.

Both opposition leader Juan Guiadó and sitting president Nicolás Maduro are acting for an international audience.

Scottish secession still seems unlikely. But until the 2016 referendum, so did leaving the EU.

With former Liberian militia leader Jucontee Thomas Woewiyu soon to be sentenced, others like him remain unprosecuted in the U.S.—even living alongside their victims.