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Jan 18, 2020
Russia has played all sides in the conflict to get a seat at the negotiating table. Now it wants an end to sanctions.
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Jan 17, 2020
Tracking the sources of socialist conduct.
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Jan 17, 2020
Essays on how social democracy can save the world, as well as counterpoints on why capitalism remains the best way for populations to thrive.
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Jan 17, 2020
The slain Iranian general helped defeat the Islamic State in Iraq, but his death is likely to unleash the sort of sectarian strife that Sunni extremists thrive on.
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Jan 17, 2020
The Russian president may never leave the political stage—but he's now ready to take a step back.
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Jan 17, 2020
Three decades ago, a perfect storm of miscommunication, miscalculation, and human error in the heat of battle caused the United States to make a mistake similar to the one Iran just did.
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Jan 17, 2020
The growing threat from the mainland can only be deterred by a public willing to make sacrifices.
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Jan 17, 2020
And moves like his Jan. 15 announcement generally work—both to secure a leader's power and ensure a favorable transition down the road.
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Jan 17, 2020
The problem isn't trade or corporations—it's the monopolization by professional groups of high-profit services.
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Jan 17, 2020
Abdalla Hamdok wasn't sure he wanted the job, but six months later there is reason to hope—despite the failed mutiny this week.
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Jan 16, 2020
After failed efforts in Moscow, European powers hope for a peace deal in Berlin.
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Jan 16, 2020
After initiating a dispute resolution process, European leaders have a limited window to provide Iran with meaningful economic relief and seek to reduce tensions between Tehran and Washington.
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Jan 16, 2020
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement sets new standards for workers — but can't stand alone.
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Jan 16, 2020
For some nations, trade and cooperation are becoming less attractive. But the world needs more coordination, not less.
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Jan 16, 2020
Attitudes toward the United States are improving across the Atlantic—but only because the right wing is getting stronger.
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Jan 16, 2020
"The rank and file are very disturbed by the inability, the refusal, of the secretary of state to defend his own people," says former diplomat Nicholas Burns.
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Jan 16, 2020
Aung San Suu Kyi's persecution of the Rohingya paved the way for Modi.
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Jan 16, 2020
Public-private partnerships can solve the planet's most vexing problems—but they need to focus on systemic change rather than single issues to succeed.
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Jan 16, 2020
The agreement may help him get reelected, but it's only a truce, not a free trade deal.
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Jan 16, 2020
New evidence from a key player sheds more light on Trump's role in pressuring Ukraine to investigate a political rival.
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Jan 16, 2020
How an obscure taxman just became Putin's No. 2.
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Jan 16, 2020
The special relationship between the two countries traces back to a personal debt incurred by Sultan Qaboos.
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Jan 16, 2020
But talks in Washington haven't yet solved the trickiest questions still looming over the dam's impact on countries downstream.
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Jan 16, 2020
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's drive to build a new canal to bypass the Bosphorus faces a formidable opponent: Istanbul mayor and likely presidential contender Ekrem Imamoglu.
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Jan 15, 2020
After a sudden constitutional shake-up, the Russian president is poised to keep a leading role in the country's politics.
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Jan 15, 2020
Sectarian tensions have already hobbled the force. The competition between Washington and Tehran could break it.
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Jan 15, 2020
Capitalism is still the best way to handle risk and boost innovation and productivity.
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Jan 15, 2020
Turkey expelled alleged sympathizers of Fethullah Gulen from government jobs after the 2016 coup attempt. Other Islamic sects, and one in particular—the Menzil—are now filling the vacuum.
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Jan 15, 2020
Global warming could launch socialists to unprecedented power—and expose their movement's deepest contradictions.
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Jan 15, 2020
The rise of prison emirs and radicalization among incarcerated extremists means that governments must be as vigilant with prisoners as they are with fundamentalists on the street.
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Jan 15, 2020
The United States and China inked a preliminary agreement, but the question of its enforcement remains.
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Jan 15, 2020
It's time to stop playing games about the nation's status.
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Jan 15, 2020
Canada might welcome Prince Harry and Meghan—but the monarchy itself is looking shaky.
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Jan 15, 2020
With a trimmed-down field, Democratic hopefuls sparred over Iraq, Iran, military deployments, and the threat from climate change.
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Jan 15, 2020
The entire Russian government has resigned as Putin charts his country's political future—one that will certainly still include a leading role for him.
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Jan 15, 2020
A previous disaster, and its aftermath, suggest now is the perfect time for Washington to start talks with Tehran.
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Jan 15, 2020
The fiercest devotees of the far-right AfD aren't native Germans but migrants from Russia.
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Jan 15, 2020
The latest batch of House evidence before Trump's impeachment trial begins includes explosive evidence linking the president's lawyer and associates to the campaign to bully Ukraine to investigate Trump's rivals.
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Jan 15, 2020
Britain, France, and Germany trigger a last-ditch mechanism, desperate to bring Iran back in line with the 2015 nuclear deal.
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Jan 14, 2020
The country's response to this outbreak has been far better than to SARS, although even more information-sharing is important.
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Jan 14, 2020
Trump's restrictive immigration policies—along with generous incentives from Beijing—have pushed Chinese students in the United States to return to China.
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Jan 14, 2020
Economic measures can de-escalate tensions, but not if used crudely.
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Jan 14, 2020
Europe's decision to start the dispute settlement process may set the clock ticking on the deal's ultimate demise.
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Jan 14, 2020
Thanks to Qaboos's legacy, Oman is better placed than many of its neighbors to confront the challenges that will continue to bedevil the Middle East.
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Jan 14, 2020
A modest trade deal can't mask major problems between Washington and Beijing. But despite those tensions, Americans are unwittingly increasing their exposure to Chinese stocks and bonds.
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Jan 14, 2020
Amazon's Jeff Bezos wants to invest billions in India's e-commerce market. The country's trade lobbies will be a powerful obstacle.
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Jan 14, 2020
Northern Ireland's leaders have reached a deal to restore power-sharing, but several problems remain unsolved.
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Jan 14, 2020
Gulf and European countries are eyeing Trump with trepidation as they fear more reprisals from Iran.
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Jan 14, 2020
Andrés Manuel López Obrador's administration has boldly reoriented its foreign policy toward gender equality.
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Jan 14, 2020
Catastrophic fires make it hard for media to stick to old narratives.
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Jan 14, 2020
The Turkish government is imposing its political preferences when it comes to selecting the leaders of the country's minority groups—and posing a threat to religious freedom.
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Jan 13, 2020
The United States is again punishing Maduro's regime, arguing it moved to take over the legislature.
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Jan 13, 2020
The ideological architects of one of the United States' most disastrous foreign-policy decisions—the 2003 invasion of Iraq—are spinning a tale to support Trump's most dangerous move to date.
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Jan 13, 2020
A new book on the West's declinist anxiety is a welcome antidote to Islamophobic alarmism, but it could go further in debunking misguided notions of "us" and "them."
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Jan 13, 2020
Mobilization and national identity proved key to Han Kuo-yu's defeat.
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Jan 13, 2020
Caught on the border, many are vulnerable to extortion, abuse, and regional tensions.
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Jan 13, 2020
Suleimani's killing shows U.S. police and military power can't be separated.
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Jan 13, 2020
National security officials backed away from the president's claim that Iran was preparing to attack four U.S. embassies.
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Jan 13, 2020
It's not just Trump. Washington hasn't had a coherent strategy for decades.
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Jan 12, 2020
Iranian demonstrators are ramping up pressure on the government after it admitted the military mistakenly shot down a commercial plane last week.
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Jan 12, 2020
With protests raging in the streets, the Islamic Republic finds itself on the defensive at home and overseas over its misrepresentations.
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Jan 12, 2020
New research debunks the theory that wars are becoming less deadly and less frequent.
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Jan 11, 2020
David Petraeus says Suleimani killing reestablishes U.S. deterrence, Irish unification back on the agenda after Brexit, and drama among the British royal family.
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Jan 11, 2020
The left's increasingly ambitious environmental agenda is rethinking the mechanics of the international economy.
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Jan 11, 2020
The term "posh" appeals to foreigners, but the British know there are teeth underneath the smile.
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Jan 11, 2020
Vaclav Smil's encyclopedia on growth and new releases on economics in hard times and diplomacy in war zones.
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Jan 11, 2020
Mongolia rocks out while its giant neighbor slumbers.
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Jan 10, 2020
Iran may call it a day after its token strike at U.S. forces in Iraq—but will its proxy forces?
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Jan 10, 2020
Carlos Ghosn's mysterious return to Beirut is met with mixed reactions from a country in protest and peril.
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Jan 10, 2020
States have been historically reluctant to take responsibility for attacks on civilian planes.
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Jan 10, 2020
Successive presidents have tried to shape new terminology for political killings. But they're still mostly illegal.
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Jan 10, 2020
A shale oil boom has created slack in the global supply chain.
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Jan 10, 2020
The United States killed Qassem Suleimani. Why can't it silence his defenders?
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Jan 10, 2020
The network has plenty of other security weaknesses, including ones the United States doesn't want to fix since they help its own surveillance efforts.
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Jan 10, 2020
The fight on Chinese disinformation has become dangerously partisan.
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Jan 09, 2020
Taiwanese voters go to the polls in an election that politicians say is all about China.
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Jan 09, 2020
Many thought the United States got beyond this immoral and illegal approach after the disaster of the Iraq War. Apparently not.
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Jan 09, 2020
Blame the British press and Buckingham Palace staff for the royal Brexit.
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Jan 09, 2020
Coverage of Suleimani's killing shows locals are still silenced.
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Jan 09, 2020
Coverage of Suleimani's killing shows locals are still silenced.
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Jan 09, 2020
Coverage of Suleimani's killing shows locals are still silenced.
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Jan 09, 2020
Former Centcom commander says the United States would be mistaken to take Iran's word that it does not seek escalation.
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Jan 09, 2020
By undermining the organization's dispute resolution body, the administration is undoing decades of rules-based economic cooperation—to the United States' own peril.
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Jan 09, 2020
Officials indicate the disaster might have been a mistake made at the height of tensions with the United States after Iran's missile launch at Iraqi bases.
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Jan 09, 2020
Officials indicate the disaster might have been a mistake made at the height of tensions with the United States after Iran's missile launch at Iraqi bases.
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Jan 09, 2020
While they're there, the United States should refocus the partnership toward making the Iraqi Army more self-sufficient. Here's how.
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Jan 09, 2020
Overshadowed by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo until now, the relative newcomer Mark Esper has played a central role in the U.S. response.
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Jan 09, 2020
Brexit has put Irish unity back on the agenda, but Northern Ireland's unionists won't go quietly.
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Jan 09, 2020
Some lawmakers are outraged at the administration's defense of Suleimani's assassination.
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Jan 09, 2020
Even more than fracking, tapping oceanic methane hydrates could soon upend the global energy landscape.
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Jan 09, 2020
After more than a month of walkouts, French unions and the government haven't reached a compromise over planned pension reform.
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Jan 08, 2020
Even if neither side wants war, the road ahead is hazardous.
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Jan 08, 2020
Victory for incumbent President Tsai Ing-wen is all but certain, shaping Taipei's future relationship with Beijing.
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Jan 08, 2020
An energy expert warns that Tehran will find new ways and locations to strike asymmetrically, maybe even in the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb strait.
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Jan 08, 2020
Scores of people in Wuhan and Hong Kong have been sent to hospitals because of a mystery respiratory ailment—and true to form, China is trying to keep it quiet.
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Jan 08, 2020
President announces he's imposing new sanctions in response to Iranian missile strike.
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Jan 08, 2020
Kremlin is expected to leap at a chance to further undermine U.S. credibility in the Mideast.
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Jan 08, 2020
Iran will use the networks Suleimani built to avenge his death.
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Jan 08, 2020
The group's leader has promised bloody retribution for Suleimani's death. In reality, he'll probably have to focus on rebuilding Hezbollah's standing.
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Jan 08, 2020
The White House is weighing action after Iran attacks U.S. military targets in Iraq.
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