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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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Mar 26, 2026
What a previous intervention reveals about the hard choices that U.S. President Donald Trump faces.
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Mar 26, 2026
The Islamic Republic claims to be thinking in terms of centuries, but its actions suggest otherwise.
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Mar 26, 2026
Here's what the rest of the world can do about it.
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Mar 26, 2026
Which of the country's dueling leaders is in favor with Trump is beside the point.
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Mar 26, 2026
Ukraine has much to teach the United States about drone defense.
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Mar 25, 2026
Though it might seem unlikely, the role would make sense for Islamabad.
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Mar 25, 2026
Few Mideast scholars saw regime change or democracy as possible outcomes.
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Mar 25, 2026
Tehran issues a counterproposal that includes war reparations and Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz.
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Mar 25, 2026
Many fear the decision to strip Senegal of its title has "blemished" African soccer.
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Mar 25, 2026
A harsh religious crackdown has caught pastors in its net.
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Mar 25, 2026
Flawed narratives about the Assad regime parallel the debate about Trump's war.
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Mar 25, 2026
No country is immune to the threat of drone warfare, experts warn.
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Mar 25, 2026
Such a view both overstates and understates the scope of Beijing's ambitions.
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Mar 25, 2026
While the world focuses on the Iran war, Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank are acutely vulnerable.
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Mar 25, 2026
Mohammad Ghalibaf's long rise was fueled by populist imagery, real estate corruption, and ruthlessness.
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Mar 25, 2026
Like Helsinki during the Cold War, Ottawa today is threatened by a bellicose and powerful neighbor.
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Mar 25, 2026
Faced with another energy crisis, the continent is reaching for a form it had largely abandoned.
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Mar 25, 2026
The secretary of defense fails to understand that rules of engagement benefit the U.S. military.
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Mar 24, 2026
The Chinese president faces an uphill battle in his hopes for a second capital.
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Mar 24, 2026
The incumbent prime minister hopes her handling of U.S. President Donald Trump's Greenland threats will secure her a third term in snap elections.
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Mar 24, 2026
The gap between narrative and reality is only growing in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Mar 24, 2026
Countries that host U.S. forces want to be partners, not just platforms.
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Mar 24, 2026
With no oil shipments, Cuba's humanitarian crisis has become dire.
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Mar 24, 2026
Prices won't just be higher at the pump.
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Mar 24, 2026
What happens when the house of cards collapses?
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Mar 24, 2026
The Pentagon's new $200 billion private equity fund would harm the critical industries it aims to support.
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Mar 24, 2026
Will there be order after chaos?
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Mar 24, 2026
Coercive bargaining returns to the Persian Gulf.
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Mar 24, 2026
A strategic location coupled with a close U.S. partnership makes for an attractive military target.
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Mar 24, 2026
A battered Iranian regime is looking for scapegoats.
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Mar 24, 2026
A key failure in 2024 paved the way for U.S. and Israeli attacks.
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Mar 24, 2026
Beijing fears a failed state on its border.
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Mar 23, 2026
But Tehran continues to deny that any such dialogue has occurred.
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Mar 23, 2026
Joe Kent's resignation letter mixes fact and fiction to deleterious effect.
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Mar 23, 2026
Even once the war ends, it will take time to get back to normal energy flows.
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Mar 23, 2026
Tens of thousands of seafarers wait with fear and boredom as the Strait of Hormuz remains closed.
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Mar 23, 2026
The shift to an attritional war focused on energy infrastructure risks becoming a quagmire.
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Mar 23, 2026
The shape of the war is being determined by the country's rugged terrain and vast coastline.
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Mar 23, 2026
The world after Trump.
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Mar 23, 2026
Ten years hence, the world will look very different.
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Mar 23, 2026
A close reading reveals multiple barriers to such a coalition.
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Mar 23, 2026
China is building a new green bloc, while the United States is doubling down on oil.
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Mar 23, 2026
Opposing the petrostates will be the Green Entente.
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Mar 23, 2026
When voters sense the president is more focused abroad than on the economy, they punish him for it.
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Mar 23, 2026
How Europe and the United States could end up in a healthier alliance.
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Mar 23, 2026
Turning a popular idea from the American left outward.
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Mar 22, 2026
He served his country for decades but ultimately fell afoul of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Mar 20, 2026
The White House has convinced Israel not to attack South Pars gas field again—so long as Tehran does not target Qatar.
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Mar 20, 2026
The damage to energy infrastructure in the Gulf will have enduring impact.
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Mar 20, 2026
A new book debates who wins wars and why.
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Mar 20, 2026
The possibility of Trump imposing his personal whims on another nation is even more frightening than U.S. failure.
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Mar 20, 2026
The president's go-to playbook in the face of defeat would be especially dangerous in the context of war.
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Mar 20, 2026
From Ukraine to Iran, Elon Musk's service has become an arbiter of foreign policy.
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Mar 20, 2026
Winter Olympic success brings funding hopes to Southern Hemisphere athletes.
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Mar 20, 2026
"The Museum of Innocence" is a nostalgic and unnerving adaptation of Orhan Pamuk's work.
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Mar 20, 2026
The Iran war has raised the stakes of the vote for the prime minister.
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Mar 20, 2026
Why the Gulf's grand strategies will not change.
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Mar 20, 2026
The White House wants a win. Many Cubans are pushing for democratization.
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