Editorial: History reminds us again and again that political change is not always achieved simply by removing a single individual from power.

The Roman Republic fell roughly 2,000 years ago — the culmination of a series of events including Julius Caesar’s assassination 2,069 years ago today. Yet the republic’s ruin still influences how we ...

Modern wars show how easily leaders meet rhetorical burden of justification and avoid strategic burden of ending them.

The BBC has been accused of acting as “judge and jury” after rejecting almost all the complaints made against it. The ...

Political violence has been a persistent aspect of human history. In this article we address the main psychological factors leading to political extremism.

Valdo Calocane is a black man with a long history of severe mental illness. But during a clinical assessment, some years ago, ...

In dozens of books, he rejected postmodern cynicism about truth and reason, arguing that rational communication was the best ...

I believe the times ahead will be radically different from what most people have gotten used to—more like the era before 1945 ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader remains the most powerful office in the Islamic Republic, but its origins trace back to the dramatic 1979 Iranian Revolution. From Ayatollah Khomeini’s rise to the constitutional ...

From the whirlwind start of the second Trump administration through the war in Iran, Americans have been put to a very ...

As conflict intensifies across the Middle East and pressure mounts on Iran’s military and political leadership, a long-shadowed figure inside the Islamic Republic has stepped fully into power. Mojtaba ...

A behind-the-scenes power broker with deep ties to Iran’s security establishment now sits at the top of the Islamic Republic.