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May 14, 2026
The British prime minister's timid reign will serve as a how-not-to guide in the exercise of power.
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May 13, 2026
The country has announced a constitutional referendum and elections. Can that bring democratic change?
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May 13, 2026
Elites in both China and the U.S. are too easily tempted to buy into their own myths.
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May 13, 2026
The U.S. president is expected to downplay other issues to secure new trade deals.
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May 13, 2026
The U.S. president is expected to downplay other issues to secure new trade deals.
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May 13, 2026
The group's foreign ministers convene in New Delhi amid global tensions.
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May 13, 2026
Beijing can't easily afford to escalate any economic struggle with Washington.
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May 13, 2026
A half-century of messy politics has inverted the Constitution's design—and there's no easy fix.
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May 13, 2026
A mediation expert explains why the U.S.-Iran cease-fire is so vulnerable.
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May 13, 2026
Recent violence exposes the flaws in the Kremlin's mercenary security model.
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May 13, 2026
Forced assimilation is costing China dearly.
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May 13, 2026
Countries must prepare for the dual threat of pandemics and supply chain shocks.
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May 13, 2026
Diplomacy of the highest quality is more essential than ever.
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May 12, 2026
The U.S. president heads to Beijing in detente and dealmaking mode.
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May 12, 2026
The British prime minister is barely clinging to power over a split and unpopular Labour Party.
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May 12, 2026
The leaders are expected to talk trade, Taiwan, and the Iran war.
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May 12, 2026
For all of the U.S. leader's efforts, Washington remains deeply vulnerable.
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May 12, 2026
There were always reasons to doubt it was a real possibility—until now.
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May 12, 2026
Uneven wealth distribution in the United States has political—and global—implications.
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May 12, 2026
Trouble is brewing as norms against war dissolve.
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May 12, 2026
The Iran war spotlights one of Washington's most contentious counterfactuals.
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May 12, 2026
The Tehran regime is more hard-line than ever—and has nothing left to lose.
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May 12, 2026
Claims of cracks in the regime overlook the Russian leader's mastery of dictatorship.
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May 12, 2026
The secretary of state may face an uphill battle during his visit to New Delhi this month.
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May 12, 2026
A coordinated response from the grouping did not emerge from its Cebu summit.
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May 12, 2026
Back then, political will existed to meet tragedy with law.
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May 11, 2026
The Kremlin is gaining billions in additional oil revenue.
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May 11, 2026
Around 20,500 minors have been kidnapped since war broke out in February 2022.
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May 11, 2026
The Hormuz crisis is hitting diesel even harder than crude.
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May 11, 2026
Facing U.S. troop withdrawal, the continent's leaders feel less alarmed and better prepared.
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May 11, 2026
Grievances with the Lebanese state, not sectarian loyalty, are driving popular support for the group retaining its guns.
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May 11, 2026
Western-dominated insurance premiums can choke off Beijing's oil supplies more effectively than warships can.
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May 11, 2026
Trump should push for zero enrichment in perpetuity as part of any deal with Tehran.
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May 11, 2026
Western assessments miss how economic ties have quietly advanced reconciliation.
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May 11, 2026
Without clear definitions, governance is impossible.
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May 11, 2026
It's time to rethink top-down attempts at environmental progress.
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May 08, 2026
Global market shocks spark calls for a regional power grid and emergency fuel stockpile.
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May 08, 2026
Test yourself on the week of May 2: The U.S. announces a drawdown in Germany, Taiwan's president concludes a foreign visit, and Sudan lobs accusations at Ethiopia.
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May 08, 2026
How a headstrong field biologist helped birth the worldwide conservation movement.
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May 08, 2026
An expert in diplomatic gift-giving describes the use and abuse of official presents.
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May 08, 2026
What the latest Orwell adaptation says about our politics.
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May 08, 2026
Courts keep taking a skeptical view of the executive branch's overreach.
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May 08, 2026
U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran have led regular people to rally around the flag—for now.
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May 08, 2026
BYD's landmark sales fuel debate over working conditions and the country's relationship with China.
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May 07, 2026
The White House ignores the threat of far-right groups.
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May 07, 2026
Despite promising peace, Israeli-Gulf cooperation paved the path to war with Iran.
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May 07, 2026
British voters are expected to abandon the Labour Party for nonmainstream alternatives.
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May 07, 2026
The Chinese leader isn't willing to give anybody else power.
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May 07, 2026
Cutting-edge U.S. models are too expensive for much of the world.
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May 07, 2026
Used to outwitting his enemies, the Russian leader is running out of room for maneuver.
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May 07, 2026
After years of quiet encroachment by ordinary people, the Islamic Republic reclaims the urban landscape.
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May 06, 2026
A reported memorandum would end the war, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and lay the framework for future nuclear talks.
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May 06, 2026
India's ruling party got a boost from four state elections this week—and unseated a longtime rival.
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May 06, 2026
Ahead of the Trump-Xi summit, Beijing is pushing back on Washington.
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May 06, 2026
Iran shows that the delusions that caused Iraq and Afghanistan persist.
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May 06, 2026
Officially or not, Washington is now breaking the taboo and talking about its ally's bombs.
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May 06, 2026
The flow of global capital is hitting new walls.
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May 06, 2026
Inside what analysts call a "pinky promise" between Libya's rival factions.
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May 06, 2026
U.S. guarantees have not shielded Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam from economic shock.
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May 06, 2026
By pulling Seoul into its rivalry with Beijing, Washington is undermining the alliance's core mission.
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May 06, 2026
Amid a regional war, political drama and drone strikes are testing Baghdad's power.
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May 06, 2026
Tehran's latest rhetoric is reframing its abdication as a self-respecting state.
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May 06, 2026
There is a way out of this mess—but not right away.
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May 06, 2026
Frustration bubbles with the United States ahead of the leaders' gathering in Cebu.
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May 05, 2026
Leftist and hard-right lawmakers passed a no-confidence motion ousting Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan.
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May 05, 2026
Local elections this week will lay bare growing fragmentation across the United Kingdom.
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May 05, 2026
Fears of Chinese and U.S. trade retaliation have spawned deals that exclude both powers.
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May 05, 2026
Experts say Hamas has few incentives to disarm.
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May 05, 2026
Kim Jong Un is orchestrating his daughter's ascent through a campaign of maternal statecraft.
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May 05, 2026
Deceptive job schemes and transnational networks are pulling Kenyans into Moscow's war.
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May 05, 2026
Malaysia becomes the first country to cancel its tariff deal with the White House.
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May 04, 2026
Trump's latest gambit to reopen the Strait of Hormuz has inflamed the fragile cease-fire with Iran.
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May 04, 2026
Ukraine and its partners are holding their breath to see what's next for Patriot air defense missile deliveries.
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May 04, 2026
The West ignores the warning signs in the Sahel at its own peril.
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May 04, 2026
The so-called Tower fiasco took place in a very different Washington to today.
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May 04, 2026
Collective action by lesser powers will not shape the global order.
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May 04, 2026
Trump's war exposes the limits of collective action among the lesser powers.
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May 04, 2026
The United States has given up on one of its core international strengths.
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May 04, 2026
The Western-led order that emerged after the 20th century's three energy shocks is losing its grip.
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May 01, 2026
The White House argues that the U.S.-Iran cease-fire paused the clock.
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May 01, 2026
Kevin Warsh will face intense pressure to cut interest rates.
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May 01, 2026
Even the most entertaining tale carries a political message.
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May 01, 2026
The Iran war is choking supply of the world's most expensive spice.
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May 01, 2026
A new book explores the geopolitical scheming that created the blood countess legend.
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May 01, 2026
A new horror film reckons with the country's buried sins—and the women erased by them.
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May 01, 2026
Plus, more international fiction releases in May.
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May 01, 2026
Israeli leaders seem increasingly comfortable with the collapse of the Palestinian Authority.
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May 01, 2026
Xi's new commanders are the men his last generals blocked.
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May 01, 2026
He hoped it would be transformational; instead, it's just one more round in the conflict.
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May 01, 2026
The geopolitical realignment goes much deeper than just oil markets.
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May 01, 2026
The country is trying to push for a green transition despite gridlock at U.N. climate talks.
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May 01, 2026
The Section 301 case outlined by U.S. trade officials is neither coherent nor defensible.
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Apr 30, 2026
Belgian Defense Minister Theo Francken on Hegseth, Hormuz, and NATO.
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Apr 30, 2026
But U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth argues that the cease-fire has paused the clock.
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Apr 30, 2026
The Italian prime minister hasn't convincingly delivered the renewal she once promised.
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Apr 30, 2026
Who is Sharaa's investment campaign really for?
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Apr 30, 2026
Belgian Defense Minister Theo Francken on Hegseth, Hormuz, and NATO's future.
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Apr 30, 2026
For Iran's Sunni admirers, resistance remains the appeal.
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Apr 30, 2026
Israel has forgotten the wisdom in an iconic funeral oration delivered 70 years ago.
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Apr 30, 2026
Societies will become richer, but history suggests that wealth may not be equally distributed.
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