Seizing America’s “future preference” and having grown up behind the “Iron Curtain” help explain Merkel’s approach to the refugee crisis.

Are radical Islamists heirs to Russian Nihilists?

16 Points on Puzzling Pundit “Thinking”

ISIS is now too powerful for the West to remain safe without commitment of large ground forces.

Action-reaction patterns in the November 13 terrorist attack in Paris.

The world still awaits a resolution of the end of the Ottoman Empire, Caliphate or not.

Projecting population size over the long term is tricky business.

Unable to afford relocation, residents of the flooded village of Artex are forced to adapt to survive.

Will Germany have to contend with a bout of U.S.-style “affirmative action”?

How to get one’s mind around the massive wave of haphazard immigration into Germany?