In some ways, this wider regional war is already at hand. From the outset, “the Gaza war” was a misnomer. Ever since Hamas’s heinous October 7 attack nearly one year ago, Israel has faced not one but ...

President Joe Biden promised to usher in a different trade era, pledging a return to multilateralism. Yet the Biden administration maintained almost all of Trump’s tariffs, added new ones, and ...

The public investigation and prosecution of corruption at such a scale occurred against the backdrop of widening inequality ...

But amid other urgent security concerns, like Russia’s war in Ukraine and containing China, Washington’s rhetoric about Latin ...

The mainstream U.S. foreign policy establishment views former President Donald Trump as a dangerous neo-isolationist, completely out of step with American ideals and interests. Internationalists at ...

Even after the 2011 U.S. raid in Pakistan that killed the al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, experts continued to hype the ...

The far right’s fervent “civilizationism,” which sees Europe as a white Christian bloc, is not inherently opposed to the ...

The offensive has yet to draw significant Russian forces from Ukraine’s eastern regions, and it remains unclear how Ukraine’s ...

But liberals’ fears that this year would reflect the global triumph of illiberal populism have so far been proved wrong.

One of the biggest such myths is that Reagan had a plan to bring down the “evil empire” and that it was his pressure that led ...

Since the introduction of reforms in 1986, more than a decade after unification, power has resided firmly within a small ...

Combined with the economic and military lifeline it is providing Russia, China’s industrial overcapacity—that is, its ...