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Apr 08, 2026
Britain's plan to hand back its last African colony is on thin ice.
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Apr 08, 2026
Iran discovered his Achilles' heel—a market slump.
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Apr 08, 2026
Even if the cease-fire holds, it will take months to undo the damage.
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Apr 08, 2026
China sees the potential for conflict as a tragedy, not an opportunity.
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Apr 08, 2026
The fragile truce faces significant obstacles.
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Apr 08, 2026
A key meeting with the Taiwanese opposition signals a different model of cross-strait stability.
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Apr 08, 2026
The truce remains fragile, but Islamabad has offered to host peace talks.
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Apr 08, 2026
Militias aligned with Tehran are embedded in some of the country's most powerful networks.
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Apr 08, 2026
The U.S. defense secretary is using the military to promote Christian nationalism, experts say.
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Apr 08, 2026
The U.S. president has a history of following other world leaders—or his gut—instead of his own intelligence officers and experts.
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Apr 08, 2026
Trump's Iran policy might undermine his one successful peace accord.
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Apr 07, 2026
The announcement came less than two hours before Trump's deadline was set to expire.
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Apr 07, 2026
Ma Xingrui is the latest official ensnared by anti-corruption purges.
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Apr 07, 2026
T-minus four hours until either Tehran accepts a cease-fire deal or the United States attacks Iran's civilian infrastructure.
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Apr 07, 2026
Baghdad doesn't control much of its own territory.
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Apr 07, 2026
Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is a reminder of how everything is fair game in an era of great-power competition.
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Apr 07, 2026
The destruction of infrastructure is killing ordinary people.
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Apr 07, 2026
A weaker, angrier, more suspicious regime with a less cautious supreme leader and leverage over Hormuz. What could go wrong?
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Apr 07, 2026
Iran will likely control the waterway. The question is whether diplomats find a way of making that workable.
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Apr 07, 2026
Some states want escalation; others are pushing for restraint.
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Apr 07, 2026
Washington thinks offensive cyber power will restore deterrence. It's mistaken.
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Apr 07, 2026
Myanmar will be hit worst.
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Apr 06, 2026
Trump has given Tehran 24 hours to agree to a peace deal and reopen the Strait of Hormuz or else face massive strikes.
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Apr 06, 2026
Decades of neglect have hollowed out expertise and experience.
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Apr 06, 2026
Violent language has become a consistent and completely counterproductive part of Donald Trump's foreign policy.
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Apr 06, 2026
Trumpian chaos conceals a wider bipartisan shift aimed at China.
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Apr 06, 2026
The lack of a counterweight encourages intervention and overreach.
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Apr 06, 2026
They should reclaim key parts of Joe Biden's record, rather than run from it.
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Apr 06, 2026
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has left thousands of Indian sailors at risk.
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Apr 06, 2026
The war in Iran has all the elements of a Greek tragedy.
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Apr 06, 2026
Now, the question is the extent to which Trump's hubris will hurt U.S. interests in the long term.
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Apr 03, 2026
The White House wants to portray Iran's military as defeated, but U.S. intelligence shows otherwise.
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Apr 03, 2026
Certain outcomes to the U.S. war in Iran now seem more likely than ever.
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Apr 03, 2026
Vince Gilligan's "Pluribus" asks whether an AI-led society would really be that bad.
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Apr 03, 2026
Former FM's terms for ending the war leave out the states that absorbed the most damage.
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Apr 03, 2026
An undercover journalist travels the Volga to catch a glimpse of life under Putin.
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Apr 03, 2026
Plus, more international fiction releases in April.
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Apr 03, 2026
The Iran war is torching the products that make the world go around.
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Apr 03, 2026
It has been one month since missiles struck a school in the Iranian port town.
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Apr 03, 2026
As Islamabad positions itself as a mediator in the Iran war, New Delhi is sidelined.
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Apr 03, 2026
Trump is trying to rerun the first Gulf War, badly, in an international system that won't allow it.
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Apr 03, 2026
The Iran war has led the region's leaders to recalibrate their economic policies.
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Apr 03, 2026
Western tariffs accelerated its transformation into a sophisticated extension of China's industrial policy.
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Apr 02, 2026
A prime-time Trump speech offered few clues.
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Apr 02, 2026
U.S. operations in Iran risk draining limited U.S. stocks.
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Apr 02, 2026
Trump has demanded that other countries bear the responsibility of "taking" the strait.
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Apr 02, 2026
The Iran war has punctured—though not completely popped—the region's tech bubble.
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Apr 02, 2026
Blocked fertilizer shipments plus La Niña spell trouble for farmers around the world.
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Apr 02, 2026
The Iran war has confirmed how little Washington cares for its ally's welfare.
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Apr 02, 2026
A renewed occupation could play to the guerrilla group's strengths.
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Apr 02, 2026
Nuclear history shows the importance of keeping skeptics in the room when thinking about safety.
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Apr 02, 2026
The political left has become simultaneously more mainstream and more radical.
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Apr 01, 2026
Algiers has historically close ties with Tehran—but it may benefit from the ongoing war.
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Apr 01, 2026
However, U.S. law dictates that only an act of Congress or a Senate resolution can withdraw Washington from the alliance.
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Apr 01, 2026
Former officials were arrested over the weekend in connection with a crackdown on protesters last year.
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Apr 01, 2026
As the world watches Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan clash.
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Apr 01, 2026
It's even more complicated than capturing a Venezuelan president.
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Apr 01, 2026
For Iranians under fire, surges of patriotism and criticism of the government.
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Apr 01, 2026
Iran's new leaders are more radical and less risk-averse than their predecessors.
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Apr 01, 2026
Each of Washington's imperfect options comes with trade-offs and uncertainties.
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Mar 31, 2026
Hackers linked to the regime are escalating attacks against the United States and Israel as the war rages.
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Mar 31, 2026
Recent mandates show the Chinese leader wants both loyalty and creativity from officials.
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Mar 31, 2026
The threat comes as U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned of a decisive next few days in the war.
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Mar 31, 2026
A vexing geography offers no clean entry point.
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Mar 31, 2026
The Gulf and Israel are pursuing rival strategies toward Iran, but neither is likely to get what they want.
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Mar 31, 2026
Jihadism's global hub is shifting, and its reach expanding.
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Mar 31, 2026
History has always been misused, but Washington's Iran rhetoric is uniquely egregious.
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Mar 31, 2026
After a string of political victories, the military regime might now grapple with fresh upheaval.
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Mar 31, 2026
Ex-diplomats point to a lack of qualified senior staff and a breakdown in trust.
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Mar 31, 2026
From the president on down, many Americans still do not grasp the implications of drones and other threats.
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Mar 31, 2026
A Kremlin-backed fintech company is linked to massive trade in dual-use goods.
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Mar 31, 2026
The Philippines has seen one of the world's sharpest increase in petrol prices.
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Mar 31, 2026
Its northern Kurdistan Region is being hit by both sides.
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Mar 30, 2026
At the same time, the White House has threatened to obliterate Tehran's energy sector if a deal isn't reached soon.
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Mar 30, 2026
Iran's Yemeni proxy group could make a bad energy market catastrophic if it targets the Red Sea.
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Mar 30, 2026
Migrants are seeing flights and jobs vanish.
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Mar 30, 2026
One month in, the Islamic Republic is winning merely by surviving.
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Mar 30, 2026
Don't overthink it. The Iran war is bad for Russia.
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Mar 30, 2026
Escalation is already shattering Washington's illusion of control.
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Mar 30, 2026
An American myth reemerges for the Iran war.
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Mar 30, 2026
By choosing escalation in Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson's plan to fund both guns and butter unraveled.
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Mar 27, 2026
The White House remains committed to achieving all of its war objectives despite a lack of NATO support.
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Mar 27, 2026
A slew of new doomsaying books miss what's coming round the bend.
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Mar 27, 2026
"A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms," like its predecessor series, offers a prescient glimpse into contemporary politics.
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Mar 27, 2026
Is the Persian Gulf's economic model in jeopardy?
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Mar 27, 2026
Indigenous knowledge is helping conservationists manage delicate ecologies.
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Mar 27, 2026
Festering battles on the international tennis circuit have finally burst into the open.
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Mar 27, 2026
Test yourself on the week of March 21: Denmark and Italy vote, an Afghan-Pakistani cease-fire ends, and Argentines march in Buenos Aires.
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Mar 27, 2026
What lesson about national solidarity will Erdogan draw from Israel and Iran?
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Mar 27, 2026
War setbacks, protests, and internet shutdowns expose the limits of Kremlin control.
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Mar 27, 2026
Can this era of south-south cooperation outlast leftist leadership?
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Mar 27, 2026
President Sadyr Japarov has stifled opposition. Now he's going after his former right-hand man.
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Mar 26, 2026
Thousands more U.S. troops are heading to the Middle East.
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Mar 26, 2026
There's still time for a sensible compromise between Washington and Tehran.
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Mar 26, 2026
U.S. allies worry that Washington will deprioritize Kyiv amid the Iran war.
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Mar 26, 2026
Lawmakers have concerns about cost, possible ground troops, and unclear objectives.
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Mar 26, 2026
Jason Bordoff on the winners and losers from conflict in the Middle East.
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Mar 26, 2026
A much-ballyhooed idea is almost—but not quite—dead.
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Mar 26, 2026
Some ships are getting through: those that pay, and those that play.
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Mar 26, 2026
A new party takes office with a mandate—and high expectations from the Gen Z movement that propelled it to power.
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