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May 20, 2026
The country has sent troops and arms to Saudi Arabia at a delicate moment in the Iran war.
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May 20, 2026
The two nations, seemingly frustrated by the United States as a mediator, are sizing up alternatives.
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May 20, 2026
The United States has called the weekslong crisis an "ongoing coup d'état."
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May 20, 2026
Inflation is rising and fault lines are widening on disruptions from history's biggest energy shock.
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May 20, 2026
How long can the country—and the Sahel's other junta-led governments—hold on?
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May 20, 2026
To thwart competitors and secure new transport corridors, Abu Dhabi has set its sights on Damascus.
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May 20, 2026
Israel is not the only relationship that deserves scrutiny from Congress.
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May 20, 2026
It's not just the song contest that's at risk of breaking up.
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May 20, 2026
Hezbollah's fate will be decided by the Amal Movement's calculations about its own future.
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May 20, 2026
The gunfight is the latest twist in a power struggle between two dynasties.
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May 19, 2026
The campaign is motivated by corruption concerns and an old-fashioned egalitarianism.
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May 19, 2026
Russia seeks to resolve several trade issues during this week's summit. But China holds the cards.
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May 19, 2026
The United States may be accepting the reality of Chinese power.
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May 19, 2026
Unconditional Western support for the incumbent prime minister could backfire.
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May 19, 2026
Legal reform and structural change may lack flair, but they can improve the situation on the ground.
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May 19, 2026
Even before the Islamic Republic, the country has always wanted the same thing.
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May 19, 2026
Tehran regards Washington's demand as tantamount to unconditional surrender, but there may yet be a way forward.
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May 18, 2026
Historian Rana Mitter on the new balance of power between Washington and Beijing.
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May 18, 2026
Rising oil prices and growing bond market volatility have raised fears of a global recession.
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May 18, 2026
Disinformation experts need a new framework in the era of AI slop.
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May 18, 2026
A year ago, the Ukrainian government decided to take the fight directly to Russia. It hasn't looked back since.
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May 18, 2026
A lot of things have gone horribly wrong—and it's not over yet.
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May 18, 2026
How the Iran war is deepening proxy conflicts around the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa.
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May 18, 2026
Ronald Reagan honed his right-wing conservatism in the Golden State.
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May 18, 2026
Cuts in foreign aid have been devastating. Countries have a window to step in and craft plans for success.
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May 15, 2026
The United States is offering to turn Cuba's lights back on—for a price.
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May 15, 2026
This is the perfect project for the creator of ‘Adolescence.'
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May 15, 2026
What Curaçao figured out about World Cup soccer that India still hasn't.
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May 15, 2026
A sweeping legal history reveals how the international community failed to live up to the promises of Nuremberg.
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May 15, 2026
Decision paralysis and divisions among alliance members were easy to exploit.
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May 15, 2026
A more confident China is happy to downplay presidential visits.
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May 15, 2026
How Washington bargains away its Africa strategy to other regions.
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May 15, 2026
Freed from Viktor Orban's veto, the bloc should expand its actions against Israeli encroachment in the West Bank.
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May 15, 2026
Rather than acting as a good-faith mediator, Trump is humiliating the Lebanese government.
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May 15, 2026
As wages in the country slump, so do the libertarian leader's ratings.
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May 15, 2026
Most worrisome are the terrorist threats missing from the document.
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May 14, 2026
A tale of two readouts.
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May 14, 2026
From the Iran war to trade, the U.S. president failed to secure major concessions from his counterpart.
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May 14, 2026
From the Iran war to trade, the U.S. president failed to secure major concessions from his counterpart.
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May 14, 2026
A weakened state can't disarm Hezbollah.
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May 14, 2026
The BJP decisively ousted longtime leaders in the state, but last-minute changes to the voter rolls have fueled allegations of foul play.
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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
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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