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Jul 11, 2025
The secretary of state was sent to a regional security forum with an unenviable job.
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Jul 11, 2025
Dismantling Afghan immigration policies and CARE undermines U.S. security.
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Jul 11, 2025
The new movie chafes against Trump-era politics.
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Jul 11, 2025
Test yourself on the week of July 5: Poland restricts its borders, Trump announces new tariffs, and protests roil Kenya.
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Jul 11, 2025
Both admirers and critics see Iran's Pahlavi dynasty as the embodiment of pro-Western modernization. But was it?
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Jul 11, 2025
The 1955 conference's value-based approach to international affairs offers a model for middle powers today.
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Jul 11, 2025
What CIA insiders make of the MAGA moles and toadies now in charge of U.S. national security.
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Jul 11, 2025
Investment in the global art market seems to be growing more speculative.
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Jul 11, 2025
Draconian steps used against activists risk weakening real anti-terrorism measures.
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Jul 11, 2025
The Trump administration, like other governments around the world, wants to encourage more births—but isn't sure how.
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Jul 10, 2025
The U.S. president is showing fresh signs of exasperation with his Russian counterpart, but will it stick?
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Jul 10, 2025
The agreements signal a new chapter of post-Brexit Anglo-French cooperation.
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Jul 10, 2025
The United States imports copper. Making imports pricier won't magically open new U.S. mines.
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Jul 10, 2025
The Trump administration's analysis of the war with Iran is an exercise in pure narrative.
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Jul 10, 2025
Tom Friedman on the region's big shifts—and how the rest of the world sees it.
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Jul 10, 2025
New policy memo stops short of maximum pressure in a blow to hard-liners.
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Jul 10, 2025
Ties between Brazil and Paraguay are fraying as they renegotiate access to one of the world's most powerful energy sources.
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Jul 10, 2025
Pushing too hard for a peace deal could come at the expense of more pragmatic action against shared threats.
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Jul 10, 2025
They are crucial to the success of mining yet disproportionately shoulder its negative consequences.
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Jul 10, 2025
In a strategic pivot, Pyongyang is teaming up with Russia and China to help dilute U.S. hegemony.
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Jul 09, 2025
The attack comes as Trump has vowed to resume weapons shipments to Kyiv.
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Jul 09, 2025
Indian comments about who should choose the next Tibetan leader highlight the risk to bilateral relations.
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Jul 09, 2025
The world's richest man takes his political evolution another step further.
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Jul 09, 2025
European allies should strengthen NATO's Indo-Pacific ties as Washington wavers.
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Jul 09, 2025
The 80th anniversary of the global victory over fascism offers a chance to change narratives.
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Jul 09, 2025
Presidential rival Sara Duterte could step into her father's foreign policy footsteps.
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Jul 09, 2025
Washington would struggle to secure dangerous materials, technologies, and expertise.
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Jul 09, 2025
Even when transitions end in elections, the goal is not to exit power but rather to entrench it.
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Jul 09, 2025
The nations attending the meeting may have small GDPs, but they are rich in critical minerals.
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Jul 08, 2025
By making Gaza unlivable, Netanyahu has laid the groundwork for ethnic cleansing.
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Jul 08, 2025
The Aug. 1 deadline extension has left U.S. trade partners scrambling for last-minute deals and concessions.
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Jul 08, 2025
What pundits get wrong about the origins of the "Middle Kingdom."
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Jul 08, 2025
The summit's focus on economic development and climate still managed to provoke threats from Trump.
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Jul 08, 2025
Economist Kenneth Rogoff on a slow global shift away from the dollar.
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Jul 08, 2025
Trump's dismantling of the aid agency has jeopardized U.S. commitments to the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau.
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Jul 08, 2025
Don't let the attention economy distract you from recognizing the catastrophe in Gaza.
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Jul 08, 2025
Flip-flops, uncertainty, and the Pentagon freelancing on weapons aid leave Ukraine and European allies in the lurch.
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Jul 08, 2025
A bomb with uranium would be easy enough for Tehran to make—but may not make sense to use.
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Jul 08, 2025
Severe mission creep has distracted U.S. diplomacy from its core purpose in a era of great-power competition.
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Jul 07, 2025
U.S. officials are hoping to link a Gaza cease-fire deal with Israel normalizing relations in the Gulf.
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Jul 07, 2025
U.S. officials are hoping to link a Gaza cease-fire deal with Israel normalizing relations in the Gulf.
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Jul 07, 2025
It's not even clear if this is still the big week for trade.
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Jul 07, 2025
The United States and Israel are speeding up the collapse of nonproliferation.
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Jul 07, 2025
A recent U.S.-brokered agreement can only ensure stability if it does not reward Rwanda's aggression.
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Jul 07, 2025
Ideological and economic concerns mean that Beijing is wary of foreign aid.
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Jul 07, 2025
The 1981 strike on an Iraqi reactor jolted Baghdad's nuclear program into high gear.
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Jul 07, 2025
Despite slowing growth, people haven't forgotten the party's record of delivering public goods.
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Jul 07, 2025
The regime has been pushed to the edge of strategic pivot.
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Jul 04, 2025
At the bloc's annual summit, Brazil hopes to focus on economic development rather than anti-Western antagonism.
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Jul 04, 2025
Pax Americana is dead, but Pax Sinica is nowhere in sight.
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Jul 04, 2025
The French aren't making action movies about heads of state.
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Jul 04, 2025
From a Salvadoran multiverse to queer life in contemporary Nigeria.
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Jul 04, 2025
As the island phases out nuclear power, can it harness its vast geothermal reserves?
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Jul 04, 2025
A non-partisan panel of experts shaping policy, in this economy?
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Jul 04, 2025
Amidst a deteriorating European security environment, a coalition party slides back into Cold War reflexes.
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Jul 03, 2025
A demonstrably unpopular regime maintains total control down to the neighborhood level.
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Jul 03, 2025
Despite two Republicans breaking ranks, the White House scored a major victory in the 218-214 vote.
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Jul 03, 2025
Despite two Republicans breaking ranks, the White House scored a major victory in the 218-214 vote.
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Jul 03, 2025
Washington, New Delhi, Tokyo, and Canberra make common cause on common ground.
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Jul 03, 2025
In D.C. visit, Netanyahu is expected to toast Trump for U.S. attack on Iran.
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Jul 03, 2025
Two more nations have joined Denmark in aiming to directly curb Russia's sanctions-evading vessels.
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Jul 03, 2025
By doing so, Trump inhibits honest analysis.
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Jul 03, 2025
The war with Iran shows why hopes for energy independence are inadequate.
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Jul 03, 2025
Success in the Middle East could be a template for a new approach to Russia's war.
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Jul 02, 2025
But only if Hamas agrees to disband, which the militant group refuses to do.
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Jul 02, 2025
The outcome of the talks could serve as a bellwether of the partnership's broader trajectory.
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Jul 02, 2025
He's hoping the Iran war will erase the stain of Oct. 7.
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Jul 02, 2025
In a crowded Illinois congressional race, 26-year-old Kat Abughazaleh is the only contender focusing on the wider world.
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Jul 02, 2025
But the same clever new attack could be used against almost anyone.
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Jul 02, 2025
The "move fast and break things" approach of Trump's second term has undermined some of his administration's own China goals.
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Jul 02, 2025
As Tibet's exiled leader turns 90, a radical spiritual approach might solve the succession problem.
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Jul 02, 2025
Successes are still quite limited, but the grouping has the potential to shape a new international order.
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Jul 02, 2025
Millions of Sudanese refugees risk falling deeper into hunger as funding dries up.
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Jul 02, 2025
Turning away partners with a clear preference for American AI infrastructure creates a vacuum that China will fill.
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Jul 01, 2025
Their version of the budget bill misses that every energy supply chain today is global.
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Jul 01, 2025
A new deal with the United States highlights Beijing's tight grip on a crucial sector.
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Jul 01, 2025
Paetongtarn Shinawatra is accused of violating the constitution in a phone call with former Cambodian leader Hun Sen.
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Jul 01, 2025
The Thai prime minister's coalition is hanging by a thread, while her Cambodian counterpart looks sidelined.
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Jul 01, 2025
As fighting drags on, sieges and Chinese pressure may allow Myanmar's military junta to consolidate its power.
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Jul 01, 2025
Washington wasn't always so vulnerable to Beijing's chokehold.
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Jul 01, 2025
Biographer Edward Luce on the life and legacy of former national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski.
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Jul 01, 2025
The expanding bloc has become a hedge against future geopolitical shifts.
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Jul 01, 2025
Despite what it claims, Israel failed to achieve its goals in its latest war.
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Jul 01, 2025
Across the region, transnational movements are giving way to a political model based on strong states.
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Jul 01, 2025
Trump forces a reckoning with China on a key Indo-Pacific ally.
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Jun 30, 2025
Top Israeli officials are in Washington to push for a U.S.-backed truce deal.
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Jun 30, 2025
Essays on the historical presidency.
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Jun 30, 2025
A crisis is unfolding before our eyes—and also in our heads.
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Jun 30, 2025
Thinking via historical analogy has become the preferred way to confront our anxieties.
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Jun 30, 2025
No other president has made his time in office so nakedly about himself and his legacy.
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Jun 30, 2025
Comparing two leaders, two millennia apart.
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Jun 30, 2025
It's Carl Schmitt's world, and we're all just living in it.
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Jun 30, 2025
Liberal critics charge Trump with creating a cult of personality not unlike Mao Zedong's.
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Jun 30, 2025
It took a decade for the U.S. economy to recover from Nixon. This time could be worse.
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Jun 30, 2025
It took a decade for the U.S. economy to recover from Nixon. This time could be worse.
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Jun 30, 2025
Jimmy Carter made foreign policy feel moral again, but that era might be over.
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Jun 30, 2025
In an era defined by vanity, the U.S. president outdoes all his populist peers.
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Jun 30, 2025
Presidents of both parties have relied on expansive authority to achieve their goals.
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Jun 29, 2025
Inside life in the city five years after its national security law went into effect.
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Jun 27, 2025
Trump's approach to Iran shows that America's crisis of manhood has hit the global stage.
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