Today, I spoke with Michael A. Cohen, regular contributor at The Boston Globe, about his new book, American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division (also available on iTunes here). …

Why seeming democratic progress has failed to staunch agitation for self-determination in Nigeria.

Michael C. Horowitz is an associate professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and the associate director of Penn’s Perry World House. His research interests include leadership,…

Should more Americans go to college? I would have thought the answer is an unequivocal yes. The evidence is overwhelming that college graduates have lower unemployment rates, earn far more money, and…

Michael Finnegan is a senior research associate at the National Bureau of Asian Research. The Republic of Korea (ROK)’s pledge to return to Afghanistan, after more than two years of absence, can be…