In the mid-19th century, Germany was a patchwork of independent kingdoms, duchies, and principalities bound loosely under the German Confederation. Within a few decades, this fractured landscape ...

If Israel lacks the demographic weight to impose its own hegemonic order on the Middle East, it has instead constructed a system to prevent anyone else from doing so.

Almost on a whim last September, John Henry bought his first bottle of kratom. Standing in line at a gas station near the ...