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Apr 14, 2026
The continent has relevant military strengths, but little appetite for fighting.
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Apr 14, 2026
Fighting on multiple fronts has taxed its military, economy, and ties with the United States.
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Apr 14, 2026
AI has a place in military targeting—but it needs safeguards.
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Apr 14, 2026
From Jordan to Nepal, solutions to urban water woes are leaving the countryside angry and parched.
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Apr 14, 2026
Destroying bridges and power plants would violate international law and expose service members to prosecution.
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Apr 14, 2026
How to rewrite the global economic framework for a progressive multilateralism.
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Apr 14, 2026
The hostage crisis dominated headlines—and left a lasting impression on Donald Trump.
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Apr 13, 2026
But without international backing, the blockade risks upending Washington's already fragile cease-fire with Tehran.
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Apr 13, 2026
The regime survived, but this doesn't make it as strong as it thinks.
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Apr 13, 2026
Madrid is preparing for one of the most ambitious regularization schemes in European history.
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Apr 13, 2026
Rich countries must understand foreign aid can actually be popular—if people see the results.
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Apr 13, 2026
While mostly used for logistics, Ukraine is increasingly using them for combat operations.
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Apr 13, 2026
If warfighters don't trust the technology, they won't use it.
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Apr 12, 2026
The opposition's stunning victory offers lessons for U.S. Democrats—and a warning for Trump's allies.
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Apr 10, 2026
Witkoff and Kushner are merely the tip of the iceberg.
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Apr 10, 2026
The U.S. war with Iran has shattered their economic model.
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Apr 10, 2026
Tehran is demanding new conditions for dialogue, as Israel continues its strikes on Lebanon.
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Apr 10, 2026
Even with a cease-fire deal in place, vital energy and fertilizer flows remain trapped.
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Apr 10, 2026
How longtime Prime Minister Viktor Orban's economic record could shape Sunday's election.
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Apr 10, 2026
Test yourself on the week of April 4: Orban prepares for Hungary's elections, Trump threatens Iran, and Taiwan's opposition leader visits China.
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Apr 10, 2026
As Islamabad hosts peace talks, it's also balancing a security pact with Riyadh.
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Apr 10, 2026
Why personality now trumps policy in global politics.
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Apr 10, 2026
The United States lost the EV race to China. Food could be next.
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Apr 10, 2026
Trump has decimated the norms of diplomatic communication, and other countries have followed suit.
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Apr 10, 2026
John Bolton explains why he wishes Trump finished the job.
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Apr 10, 2026
In the Iran war and beyond, Madrid has often done a better job looking out for U.S. interests than Washington.
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Apr 10, 2026
Government paralysis is freezing budgets and wrecking public trust.
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Apr 10, 2026
Recent scholarship shows the promise—and limits—of a historical path not taken.
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Apr 10, 2026
A look back at the U.S. intervention in Venezuela that the president wants to replicate.
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Apr 10, 2026
The Iran war has revealed the geopolitical miscalculations of the current tech race.
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Apr 09, 2026
Israel's offensive in Lebanon is threatening the tenuous truce.
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Apr 09, 2026
The official appointment of coup leader Min Aung Hlaing as president is likely to hasten a shift within the bloc.
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Apr 09, 2026
The NATO chief spoke the day after a tense White House meeting with the U.S. president.
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Apr 09, 2026
Shipping companies are reacting with caution as Hormuz cease-fire terms remain uncertain.
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Apr 09, 2026
Erratic militarism combined with increased defense spending would only bring long-term decay.
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Apr 09, 2026
Brett McGurk advised four presidents on a contested region—but to what end?
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Apr 09, 2026
Instead of ending the fighting, the current deal has mostly managed to complicate it.
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Apr 09, 2026
Countries are lining up for military deals with Kyiv.
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Apr 09, 2026
The Iran war has disrupted a different, more fragile global energy system.
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Apr 09, 2026
Advocates for the disastrous adventure in Iran shouldn't escape responsibility.
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Apr 08, 2026
Disagreements over what was agreed to threaten to unravel the U.S.-Iran cease-fire deal.
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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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