Once-promising Mongolia takes an authoritarian turn.
In his three-volume history, Antony Polonsky surveys the Jewish communities of eastern Europe from 1350 to the present. Timothy Snyder reviews.
Our oceans are changing faster than at any time in human history, argues Callum Roberts, a British professor of marine conservation. G. Bruce Knecht reviews "The Ocean of Life."
The author of "Midnight in Peking" on books about the misadventures of expatriates—from the real-life denizens of Kenya's Happy Valley to Graham Greene characters in Haiti.
True fiction turns out to be stranger than fake fiction.
A bad legal ruling abets a bad anti-antiterror amendment.
A punitive exit tax on the Facebook expat isn't worthy of America.
New evidence reveals a vast, cruel network of prison camps.
How did this great nation travel from the common sense of our grandparents to where we are today?
GST Steel would have failed much earlier without Bain.
The new Islamist government passes a religious freedom test.
The J.P. Morgan CEO is not a diplomat and does not perform kowtows to the political powers that be.
We do not get to choose if a freedom revolution should begin or end in the Middle East or elsewhere. We only get to choose what side we are on.
Orlando Morel graduated this week from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy—18 years after being rescued by the Coast Guard after fleeing Haiti with his mother.
Former CIA officer Henry Crumpton chronicles his career as spy and diplomat, focusing on the campaign in Afghanistan after 9/11.
Could a boxer beat an intolerant shopping-center owner in court?
By Jason L. Riley Using Jeremiah Wright to attack President Obama is certainly fair game, but it may not be smart politics.
Regulators get ready to expand the too-big-to-fail club.
Social media is already passé in Silicon Valley. America's innovation engine is now focused on transportation, energy and manufacturing.
The record in May has been one mistake or disappointment after another.