Argument

Both sides have leverage but have been reluctant to use it.

Pulling out all U.S. troops is the administration’s risky plan to pressure Kabul and the Taliban to make peace.

With troops to depart on Sept. 11, the next five months are critical for any chance of peace.

Plans for a global pandemic treaty don’t solve the problem of China’s refusal to cooperate.

Oscar-nominated “Minari” is about flowering in the United States—with the aid of our elders.

In Eastern European countries that have accepted the Russian vaccine, destabilization has followed.

Making nice after an alleged coup attempt obscures serious challenges, including water scarcity, a refugee crisis, and unhelpful neighbors.

Local community projects are already powering parts of London and could pave the way for a green transition.

This week’s attack on an Iranian enrichment facility has improved the country’s negotiating position.

Loyalist fears that Boris Johnson is abandoning them have sparked a wave of violence that could endanger the Good Friday Agreement.

Trump gutted the programs that helped aid and place migrants. Now Biden is left with a mess.

India is a warning about unintended consequences for those looking to regulate Big Tech in the United States.

Russia’s recent aggression along its border shows why Kyiv needs decisive action from the alliance.

Decentralizing power can be key to long-term peace.

It’s more likely to inflame nationalist sentiments than change anything on the ground.

A rich and strong nation can pay for its own military.

A cycle of deadlocked elections has left the country without a functioning administration—and a foreign policy set on autopilot.

But 50 years after independence, an authoritarian turn casts a shadow over the country’s future.

Quiet negotiations with Berlin can do what economic coercion can’t.

A close reading of the philosophical career, and influence, of France’s most ridiculed public intellectual.