Now more than ever, democracy’s champions need to hang together. The Biden administration should approach its proposed Summit for Democracy in the spirit of humility rather than hubris.

Once a country loses its sense of national identity, a national unraveling is often not far behind.

America is one country and two nations. They will have to coexist; whether they can work together remains to be seen.

Mikhail Gorbachev will be remembered in the West for laying the basis for more constructive relations to ease the end of the Cold War, but vilified in Russia for speeding the Soviet Union’s demise.

The balance of loathing from the left and right suggests the administration is on the right path.