The president-elect knows only too well the failures of all the presidents who preceded him, and the hardening of positions that's occurred on both sides.

The connection between the rise of social media and the decline of American politics and society seems obvious. But what if what everybody knows is wrong? 

The United States came up with “maximum pressure”—but the Israeli government is the only one carrying it out.

Israel’s government is grappling with a moral imperative to help Ukraine in a war that recalls its own struggle to maintain sovereignty while acknowledging that cooperation with Russia is vital to it…