Before the year is out, the United Nations must appoint a new secretary-general. This is an opportunity to be seized, not a misfortune to be endured — precisely because multilateralism is navigating heavy headwinds. The U.N. must rediscover its core mission: guardian of peace and provider of humanitarian relief at the intersection of national sovereignties. […]

The Fifth Amendment says the government can’t take your property for public use without paying you for it. It doesn’t say the government can’t destroy your property’s value, a very different thing. That distinction has cost property owners billions of dollars they’ll never recover. James Madison wrote that government is instituted to protect property of […]