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Oct 22, 2019
Why Hungary and Russia might have wanted to shape the U.S. president's views on Ukraine.
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Oct 22, 2019
New Delhi is weighing retaliation against Kuala Lumpur and Ankara after recent criticism over Kashmir.
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Oct 22, 2019
Paul Krugman and other mainstream trade experts are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization: It hurt American workers far more than they thought it would. Did America's free market economists help put a protectionist demagogue in the White House?
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Oct 22, 2019
Fixing the crisis will be risky—but worthwhile for both sides.
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Oct 22, 2019
Long considered domestic issues, the continent's battles are really international contests for influence and power.
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Oct 22, 2019
Long considered domestic issues, the continent's battles are really international contests for influence and power.
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Oct 22, 2019
The fragile cease-fire is set to expire as Erdogan met with Putin.
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Oct 22, 2019
Russian and Turkish troops are set to take control of a significant chunk of formerly Kurdish-held territory.
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Oct 22, 2019
In state and national elections, many Indians find their names missing from electoral lists—and a disproportionate number of those people are minorities and women.
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Oct 22, 2019
Tehran may be good at winning influence, but it is bad at ruling after that.
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Oct 22, 2019
A tough election night leaves Canada with a fractured Parliament.
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Oct 22, 2019
Field experiments now dominate development economics—often at the expense of the world's poorest.
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Oct 22, 2019
Turkey and Russia's leaders meet today as the clock winds down in northern Syria.
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Oct 21, 2019
The country's offensive in northern Syria was preceded by the suppression of the Kurdish political movement at home.
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Oct 21, 2019
Berlin's refusal to shut Huawei out of its 5G networks weakens Europe's prospects of standing up to Beijing.
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Oct 21, 2019
Officials and experts say the proposal may be a way to sell Trump on keeping a residual force in Syria.
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Oct 21, 2019
So-called key individuals, from drug addicts to religious believers, are singled out in police databases.
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Oct 21, 2019
From self-immolations to forest blazes, the country's conflagrations are igniting pan-sectarian protests.
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Oct 21, 2019
Sauron's hegemonic collapse holds potent lessons for the Trump administration.
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Oct 21, 2019
Peter Handke's greatest aesthetic strength is his biggest intellectual weakness: the absence of all political and psychological depth.
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Oct 21, 2019
Under the plan, some 200 U.S. troops would stay to protect the oil fields and fight ISIS.
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Oct 21, 2019
Voters head to the polls in an election characterized by unusual divisiveness.
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Oct 20, 2019
Maxime Bernier has run a familiar populist playbook — and ended up a joke.
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Oct 20, 2019
Canada's nationalist People's Party has run a familiar populist playbook — and ended up a joke.
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Oct 19, 2019
In the middle of World War II, Tehran became a haven for both Jewish and Catholic Polish refugees who were welcomed as they arrived from Soviet Central Asia.
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Oct 19, 2019
How to fix U.S. democracy, populism, trade, and other pressing issues.
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Oct 19, 2019
The only way to prevent America's two-party system from succumbing to extremism is to scrap it altogether.
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Oct 19, 2019
Trump's trade wars aren't just about him or China—but global economic imbalances that the next U.S. administration will still have to address.
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Oct 19, 2019
The only way to save journalism is to make readers direct participants in making, and paying for, the media.
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Oct 19, 2019
The same impulse that brought Trump to power could save U.S. democracy.
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Oct 18, 2019
Secretary-General António Guterres lays down the law in a new memo dealing with the cash crisis.
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Oct 18, 2019
Kevin Moley, the top U.S. diplomat overseeing international organizations affairs, will retire next month.
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Oct 18, 2019
Wealthy Chinese are pushing to overturn their national cuisine's image as fast and cheap.
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Oct 18, 2019
By going along with the myth that the president is pulling out of the Middle East, his critics are helping make U.S. wars there worse.
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Oct 18, 2019
By abandoning the Kurds in Syria, Trump has undermined one of his central foreign policies.
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Oct 18, 2019
As political ties flourish, the country is taking tenuous steps to confront its Holocaust history. But it hasn't gone far enough.
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Oct 18, 2019
Could Northern Ireland leave the U.K. altogether?
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Oct 18, 2019
The United States has slapped sanctions on companies tied to Chinese repression. That may be just the start.
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Oct 18, 2019
Even when the country wants a deal, at least four largely psychological impediments get in the way.
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Oct 18, 2019
Even when the country wants a deal, at least four largely psychological impediments get in the way.
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Oct 18, 2019
Even as Erdogan agrees to a temporary cease-fire, aid agencies have suspended operations.
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Oct 17, 2019
Munitions carrying white phosphorus have allegedly caused horrific burns.
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Oct 17, 2019
Munitions carrying white phosphorus have allegedly caused horrific burns.
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Oct 17, 2019
Beijing can always outspend Taipei. It's time to think small and mean.
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Oct 17, 2019
The ruthless Syrian dictator is guilty of countless war crimes—and regrettably represents his country's least bad remaining option.
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Oct 17, 2019
The tentative agreement negotiated by the United States was seen as a major victory for Ankara.
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Oct 17, 2019
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence negotiated a pause in the violence, but the Kurds got a bad deal.
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Oct 17, 2019
Still, if the new agreement fails to gain approval, the public may not blame Johnson at the polls.
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Oct 17, 2019
The Democratic Unionist Party's statement on the latest deal with the European Union.
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Oct 17, 2019
First John Sullivan must get through Congress, which wants to question him about Ukraine. Then he must deal with a hostile Moscow.
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Oct 17, 2019
The imperiled birth—and slow decline—of Golden Rice.
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Oct 17, 2019
Turkey's president says Syrian Kurdish fighters are terrorists—but he's a very unreliable narrator.
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Oct 17, 2019
Turkey's president says Syrian Kurdish fighters are terrorists—but he's a very unreliable narrator.
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Oct 17, 2019
American forces are abandoning outposts across the region as Russia and Syria moves in.
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Oct 17, 2019
U.S. forces are abandoning outposts across the region as Russia and Syria moves in.
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Oct 17, 2019
The negotiations over Turkey's incursion into Syria could be undermined by Trump's recent comments.
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Oct 16, 2019
The country is making the transition from net importer of ideas to net innovator, and as it does, it is finding that good patent laws matter.
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Oct 16, 2019
Coalitions are forming in the face of threats to democracy and pluralism.
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Oct 16, 2019
Washington has abandoned the Kurds. If Europe doesn't bolster its defenses, the Poles, Lithuanians, and Latvians could be next.
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Oct 16, 2019
Western leaders long saw the authoritarian Meles Zenawi as an indispensable ally. Now, they've found a new hero in Abiy Ahmed. But is the Nobel Prize an effort to make amends or influence Ethiopia's political future?
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Oct 16, 2019
After a long, mysterious delay, the Trump administration finally targets the Turkish bank for helping Iran to evade U.S. sanctions. Don't expect Ankara to cooperate.
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Oct 16, 2019
Both sides face domestic pressure over the trade war, but they won't make an agreement without mutual trust.
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Oct 16, 2019
There's only one positive aspect to the disaster in Syria: It's forcing an overdue conversation about U.S. grand strategy.
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Oct 16, 2019
There's only one positive aspect to the disaster in Syria: It's forcing an overdue conversation about U.S. grand strategy.
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Oct 16, 2019
They won't make up for backing out of Syria and failing to stand up to Iran.
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Oct 16, 2019
The Trump administration's maximum pressure strategy is working—just not in the way that matters most.
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Oct 16, 2019
Erdogan told Trump he would not attack the symbolically important Kurdish-held town in northern Syria.
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Oct 16, 2019
Britain is close to reaching a last-minute agreement with the European Union, but doubts remain.
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Oct 15, 2019
Universities can't handle Confucius Institutes responsibly. The state should step in.
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Oct 15, 2019
Chinese officials want the U.S. president reelected—because he's so weak.
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Oct 15, 2019
Whoever sits in the White House come 2021 will likely have to confront a pandemic of some kind. He or she should start preparing now.
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Oct 15, 2019
Whoever sits in the White House come 2021 will likely have to confront a pandemic of some kind. He or she should start preparing now.
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Oct 15, 2019
The region once acted as a bloc in world affairs. But as Costa Rica's bid to join the U.N. Human Rights Council shows, Venezuela's ongoing disintegration is ripping it apart.
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Oct 15, 2019
Since the September attack on Saudi oil facilities, Riyadh and the Houthis have taken a step back from all-out war. All parties, including the United States, should seize this rare opportunity to resolve the conflict.
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Oct 15, 2019
The Syrian Democratic Forces have recaptured some territory from Turkish-backed forces.
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Oct 15, 2019
Weak domestic demand is hurting growth, but more investment could lead to a rebound.
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Oct 15, 2019
Leaving the refugee crisis unresolved while legitimizing the brutal Assad regime will only do further harm to U.S. interests in the Middle East.
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Oct 15, 2019
How the U.S. government is failing women in foreign policy.
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Oct 15, 2019
Plus: Police officers killed in Mexico, Mozambique heads to the polls, and the other stories we're following today.
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Oct 14, 2019
Despite his vow to "destroy" Turkey's economy, the U.S. president could help its leader escape the wrath of Congress.
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Oct 14, 2019
The debate over how to best marshal the country's alternative energy sources may affect a new independence referendum.
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Oct 14, 2019
The seeds of Washington's abandonment of the Kurds traces back to a classified document written in the 1970s by Henry Kissinger.
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Oct 14, 2019
If Maduro hands the refining company over to his creditors, it would be bad news for the opposition—and the United States.
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Oct 14, 2019
Flashy summits between Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi don't achieve much because India has a weaker set of cards than China. To change the game, New Delhi needs to hew closer to Washington.
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Oct 14, 2019
Costa Rica has announced its candidacy to stop Nicolás Maduro's tyrannical government from winning a coveted seat at the U.N.
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Oct 14, 2019
Ankara's radical proxies are also apparently executing Kurdish prisoners and killing unarmed civilians, videos show.
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Oct 14, 2019
Both the United States and China want a bargain. But they're fooling themselves if they think it's happening.
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Oct 14, 2019
Under Trump, the relationship between the two populations has suffered. The next president should change that.
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Oct 14, 2019
U.S. withdrawal leaves Syrian Kurds turning toward Damascus for support against Turkey.
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Oct 14, 2019
U.S. withdrawal leaves Syrian Kurds turning toward Damascus for support against Turkey.
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Oct 14, 2019
Plus: Spain sentences Catalan separatists, Poland's PiS wins again, and what to watch in the world this week.
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Oct 13, 2019
The Kurds' commander in chief explains why his forces are finally ready to partner with Assad and Putin.
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Oct 13, 2019
U.S. strategy in Syria has long been plagued by short-term thinking, while Russia, Turkey, and Iran played a long game. Trump's betrayal of the Kurds is just the latest chapter in Washington's bungled approach to the region.
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Oct 12, 2019
Ethiopia is on the right course. But there's much more to be done.
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Oct 12, 2019
New survey data shows that Iraqis are deeply divided on how to punish members of the terrorist group.
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Oct 12, 2019
New survey data shows that Iraqis are deeply divided on how to punish members of the terrorist group.
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Oct 12, 2019
The Chinese company's lead in the 5G race isn't insurmountable, and other firms and countries shouldn't rush into the fray.
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Oct 12, 2019
A new book looks at the China challenge for the United States—and China itself.
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Oct 12, 2019
Turkey bombs Syrian Kurds, Poland goes to the polls, and the NBA bows to Chinese pressure.
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Oct 12, 2019
The U.S. president has imported prodazhnist', Ukraine's distinctive culture of crookedness, where everyone has a price and politics has no value.
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