Just getting along with Russia isn’t going to be good enough. If the new administration wants a “reset” of its own, it will need to demonstrate clarity and strength. 

A strongman with a messianic streak, Vladimir Putin might almost have stepped from the pages of Russian history. 

All presidents clash with their intelligence experts, but the hostility the new administration has displayed is unusual—and risky. 

Environmental activists must quit playing politics and begin to practice one of the fundamental disciplines of good governance: weighing benefits against costs. 

The label of “hate crime” is used to score political points, not to end violence. It should be eliminated. 

By appointing Betsy DeVos education secretary, President Trump shows he’s listening to parents. 

Hoover fellow Sidney Drell worked with science’s deepest and most dangerous nuclear secrets, and generations of American leaders benefited from his guidance. An appreciation of a physicist, a scholar, and a patriot. 

One of the blackest chapters of World War II: the German massacre of Kyiv’s Jews. The horror of Babi Yar, suppressed in the Soviet era, may be finding its proper place in European memory at last.