In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, a little-known Sovietologist and deputy director of the State Department’s Office of Policy Planning, published an article in a Washington journal, The National Interest, ...

President George W. Bush delivers a speech at the National Endowment for Democracy in the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., Oct. 6, 2005. The U.S. has long used the promotion of democracy ...

This commentary was originally published in the Times Union on June 11, 1989, a week after the Chinese government’s violent crackdown on student protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Louis C.

A spectre is haunting Washington — the spectre of communism. Earlier this month, in a robust 327-62 bipartisan vote, the US House of Representatives passed a McCarthyite bill requiring high school ...