Politics
Why the ability to argue and vote instead of fighting is one of humanity's greatest inventions, and why a parliament, for all its flaws, is better than any alternative.
Politics
Why the true cost of war is known not to generals but to mothers, why peace must be defended yet war must never be loved, and what stands behind the word "defense."
Politics
How protracted interstate wars have ended in history and what scenarios are possible — no forecasts, but analogies.
Politics
Why corruption behaves like a hidden tax, who ends up paying it, and why the fight is with incentives, not with people.
Politics
Why the quality of a government shows not in palaces and speeches but in the ordinary life of an ordinary person, and what an artist understood about this almost seven hundred years ago.
Politics
The declassified documents confirm that weaknesses in election security are real, but they do not prove that anyone's vote was rewritten.
Politics
Why a healthy society is not everyone agreeing but the ability to disagree without hatred, and how the right to be wrong protects each of us.
Politics
What the rule of law means in plain words, and why a society where rules stand above people is more stable.
Politics
In one week: a desalination plant in Kuwait, a grain ship off Odesa, and tankers loading Kazakh oil at Novorossiysk. One method used by four different belligerents — and what it means for a country at war with nobody.
Politics
Why elections matter not for the result of a single day but for what they do to power and society over the long run.
