The term "political science" used to mean public policy studied not just as opinion but based on empirical, documentable evidence. Today it's come to mean something darker--the subversion of science in the hands of ideologues committed to manipulating public policy to their end. This new, and disheartening use of the...

We should encourage states transitioning to democracy to protect themselves from Iranian efforts to subvert their progress.

The Justice Department’s recent announcement that an Iranian agent attempted to recruit a Mexican drug gang to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in the United States presents an opportunity for the Obama administration finally to draw the line on Iran’s growing presence in the Western Hemisphere.

The University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit's e-mail account was hacked earlier this month, exposing communications among CRU faculty members and researchers that reveal their willingness to distort climate-change data.

The glorious revolution that swept through Russia 20 years ago ushered in a new political system, changing the country's economic foundation while creating a new state: post-imperial Russia. Where did it all go? What happened to the noble fervor, the moral clarity, the thirst for truth, the heroism?

Unfortunately, the rising threat of an Iranian Winter--nuclear or otherwise--is likely to outlast and overshadow any Arab Spring.

Six years have passed since Hong Kong's handover to China, and now there are fears that mainland China might seek to limit Hong Kong's erstwhile freedoms. A proposed change to Hong Kong's Basic Law will outlaw acts of "treason," "subversion," and "sedition." Some allege this will threaten...

Global public opinion may be hardening against China and hopes that it will liberalize may be dashed.