PARIS -- Europeans are coming to terms with the fact that President Obama is not a miracle worker, and with the reality that everything he does is not magic. Oh, yes, most Europeans are still happy ...

President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan speech and his Nobel Prize acceptance speech have generated considerable discussion about the old dispute between realists and idealists in foreign policy. The ...

WASHINGTON--Every politician speaks glowingly about service to country, but few see national service as an important political issue. The temptation is to dismiss service proposals made by someone in ...

"Idealism" indicates concern for some higher good and "realism" shows concern for things as they actually are. Idealism runs through Greek thought, but their philosophers were realists and were ...

The Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) tends to be understood in the context of the Japan–China relationship. Japan’s pledge of US$30 billion in aid for Africa at TICAD 8 in ...

At 62, Justin Cartwright is a senior member of a masterful generation of English novelists that includes Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie and Kazuo Ishiguro. He has all that group’s relevant ...

Washington more often suffocates than satisfies our dreams, and this may prove to be the twenty-third season’s unwavering dramatic thread. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 ...

Among the responses I received for last fortnight’s column on dealing with cynicism were a few that pointed to the difficulty of keeping hope alive in the face of repeated failure. How can one avoid ...

The new Trump administration is delivering huge changes in the way the federal government operates. One expected result is for the conduct of science programs to reflect realism rather than idealism ...

It often appears that the policies of an elected official differ significantly from those espoused by the same person when running for office. Does this reflect a betrayal of principles, hypocrisy, or ...