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Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the nation on Sept. 15, 2016, ahead of Sept. 18 parliamentary elections.

How to negotiate with Putin

Perhaps the most famous piece of stage direction in Western literature occurs in the third act of Shakespeare's "Winter's Tale": "Exit, pursued by a bear." There's plenty of reason to...
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump arrives at the podium to speak at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena on August 3, 2016, in Jacksonville, Fla.

Welcome to Donald Trump’s America

Donald Trump's conquest of the Republican Party has sparked panic about what would happen to America if he wins the general election. But there is another troubling question that is...
Nigel Farage, the leader of the U.K. Independence Party speaks to the media on College Green with the Houses of Parliament in the background in London, Friday, June 24, 2016.

Nigel Farage is the face of Brexit

If you talk to Nigel Farage for long enough, you quickly realize that there are two topics that can cause the mask of bonhomie to slip — two things that...
Richie Compton, left, and Erik Winger kneel at a makeshift memorial for the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting outside of the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on June 13, 2016.

How did the FBI miss Omar Mateen?

If you follow social media on the topic of the FBI and terrorism, you will find two themes predominate whenever a terrorist incident occurs in the United States. The first...
A Health Ministry worker fumigates for the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that transmits the Zika virus at the Oriental Market in Managua, Nicaragua. Worries about the rapid spread of Zika through the hemisphere has prompted officials several Latin American countries to suggest women stop getting pregnant until the crisis has passed.

To fight Zika, deploy the National Guard

Ever since the Bible lumped pestilence and war together as two of the Apocalypse's four horsemen, the military has fought disease. Zika, with more than 1,000 confirmed cases and one...