Argument

The alliance is one of the best bargains in geopolitics.

On both sides of the Pacific, women are fighting for their rights.

Boris Johnson’s offshoring of asylum-seekers won’t stop the human smuggling trade—or deter people fleeing tyranny who are intent on reaching Britain.

The future will not be pretty for the United States if it cannot rediscover some of the idealism that marked its long rise.

Pedro Castillo promised leftist reform. His incompetency has left his country’s democracy on its last legs.

The ultra-rich should dip into their deep pockets—for their own sake.

There is no realistic scenario for Ukraine to win. Washington should push for a settlement.

Creative storage and transport of the new harvest can undercut Russia’s weaponization of global hunger.

Biden must make it clear to Saudi leaders that continued ballistic missile cooperation with China will jeopardize U.S. missile defense assistance.

It has always been defined and influenced by its periphery.

As Thucydides’s history shows, wielding power needs open debate.

Ukraine might be the last nail in the coffin for a friendly relationship.

Negotiated settlements would allow the court to go after more bad actors and could even mitigate further atrocities.

Pro-Russian nationalists are close to taking power in Sofia. Washington can weaken them by offering recognition of North Macedonia’s nationhood.

He is the one unsavory character the West urgently needs better relations with.

A lack of rules has created fraudulent, bubble-driven markets.

Russia’s war has opened up a vast strategic chasm within the European Union.

Russia’s war can only be understood as a bloody post-imperial conflict.

Russian artillery is an old tradition with brutal uses.

A religious revival rooted in the country’s imperial history has coincided with civil war and the spread of genocidal rhetoric—endangering a diverse and multifaith nation.