What Makes Armies Commit Atrocities?
The crimes in Ukraine stem from Russian military brutalities.
Russia to U.N. Members: You’re With Us or Against Us
Moscow will interpret a failure to vote against its ouster from the Human Rights Council as a show of support for the U.S.
Finland May Finally Want In on NATO
Sweden is not far behind.
Ukraine’s War Has Already Changed the World’s Economy
Global economics will never be the same—but not in the ways you might think.
Asia
Why Most of the Indo-Pacific Tiptoes Around Russia
China
Opposing China Means Defeating Russia
Middle East & Africa
Will Russia’s Ukraine Invasion Impact the Central African Republic?
Europe
Russia’s Invasion Has Created Victims the World Recognizes
Americas
How Biden Can Rebuild U.S. Ties With the Gulf States
Ukraine Crisis: What to Read
U.S. Grand Strategy After Ukraine
Seven thinkers weigh in on how the war will shift U.S. foreign policy.
Putin’s Thousand-Year War
The reasons for his anti-Western enmity stretch back over Russia’s entire history—and they will be with us for a long time.
How Putin Bungled His Invasion of Ukraine
Faulty assumptions, terrible logistics, and a ferocious Ukrainian resistance have turned Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Ukrainian adventure to ashes—for now.
The Intellectual Catastrophe of Vladimir Putin
The meaning of Russia’s war in Ukraine is its own national weakness.
Long Reads
How to Avoid the Dark Ages of Arms Control
There are two possible pathways after Ukraine. One of them is harrowing.
War-Gaming Taiwan: When Losing to China Is Winning
What military planners learn when they simulate a Chinese attack.
Donald Trump’s History Book
Journalists have written the “first rough draft of history,” but now it is historians’ turn to assess a most unconventional presidency.
China Is Choking Off Asia’s Most Important River
Upstream dams are destroying the Mekong Basin.
Poetry and Politics
The Poet Laureate of Hybrid War
The tragicomic absurdities of 21st century warfare are finally being transformed into literature.
Lines of Resistance
Will America see a rebirth of political verse?
Poetry for the Masses
1,200 newly translated poems from Bertolt Brecht offer an unexpected survival guide for difficult times.
Reading in the Dark
In the age of Trump, literature can sustain those searching for the courage to resist the politics of division.
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Current Issue: Winter 2022 | Archives
10 Ideas to Fix Democracy
Marietje Schaake, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Fareed Zakaria, Eduardo Porter, and other leading thinkers offer some unexpected solutions to the current crisis.
Why the U.S. Military Isn’t Ready for Civil War
A significant portion of Americans seek the destruction of political authority. What if they succeed?
podcasts
visual stories
The Month in World Photos
Continued devastation and heartbreak in war-torn Ukraine, record flooding in Australia, and an International Women’s Day protest in Mexico City. This was March 2022.
Life Underground in Bomb-Shattered Kharkiv
Two weeks into the war, residents of Ukraine’s second-largest city are still surviving in squalid shelters.