The American Century is fading. At least, that is the consensus among most analysts of international politics. Whether they attribute U.S. decline to domestic dysfunction or to the rise of China and ...

Sometimes it takes a crisis to dispense with intellectual fads. The world’s response to Libya has made clear that currently fashionable arguments about the “rise of the Rest” and the world’s new ...

Cassano and colleagues report an analysis of outpatients and inpatients with mood disorders (N = 1158) who participated in 5 studies in the United States and Italy. Diagnostic assessment was carried ...

The defeat of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan in World War II ushered in the Cold War era. For the four and a half decades between the defeat of fascism and the collapse of communism, global ...

Richard N. Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of "The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course" (PublicAffairs, 2005). Two seemingly unrelated events ...

With American casualties in Iraq passing 1,000, and regions of the country descending into more destructive violence, the limits of U.S. military power are on display. The Bush administration’s ...

A large consensus of research has noted correlations between mood disorders and creativity, particularly bipolar disorder and depression. The stereotype of the tortured brooding artist carries some ...

The manifest failures of the regime-change wars cost America huge sums in blood and treasure, but arguably even more important was the long-term symbolism conveyed: America is not all-powerful and ...