Argument

Tehran no longer takes Washington seriously. To revive the nuclear deal, the threat of military escalation needs to be on the table.

Moving the Games offers a rare opportunity to weaken Chinese President Xi Jinping.

A broad, ideologically diverse coalition has the plans and people to turn things around.

Denmark, Norway, and Sweden shouldn’t be held up as socialist utopias.

Zalmay Khalilzad achieved what he was asked to do: Get the United States out of Afghanistan.

Growing military cooperation offers Washington a hedge against Ankara and Moscow.

Europe and the United States were never going to be the reunited couple in a geopolitical rom-com.

The spread of weapons is undercutting the European Union’s own security.

Beijing is not content to stop stifling free speech at the water’s edge. Western companies and institutions must put liberty before profits.

The U.S. national security bureaucracy needs a severe upgrade.

Washington isn’t behaving like a competent great power due to partisan gridlock, recycling of discredited ideas, and a lack of focus on real threats.

As the government pushes productivity, young Chinese are embracing cynicism.

In Ivory Coast, the court’s blind pursuit of justice undermined reconciliation efforts.

Seoul’s new missile technologies have both Pyongyang and Beijing in mind.

The trial project is no threat to dollar hegemony.

Cities are the proving ground for potent new tools to address the crisis.

The “war on terror” is an American idea that only made matters worse.

The U.S. president should ignore fearmongering and build on a real opportunity.

Iraq and Egypt show how hard it is to get rid of a militarized security force.

By comparing the foibe killings with Nazi genocide, the Italian right is whitewashing the country’s past.