Romantic nationalism can fulfill a people's dreams or nightmares and usually does both.
Great problems facing the United States' competitors mean Washington has much-needed space on the international stage.
Just as the current political stalemate will paralyze Obama domestically, reality will limit him abroad.
Polls say the U.S. presidential election will be very close. This does not mean U.S. society is as deeply divided as it might first appear.
The exchange is not a public policy review but a dissection of the soul of someone who wants to be president.
The Syrian crisis is jump-starting negotiations regarding much broader strategic disputes.
Washington's less-involved approach to world affairs is informed by previous experience.
The Salafist movement rapidly rose from a minor apolitical philosophy to an influential Islamist phenomenon.
