Argument

In Moscow, the Kremlin attacks U.S. racism while the liberal opposition ignores it, or worse.

The increasingly narrow backgrounds of reporters distort coverage at home and abroad.

A supposed national security law in the Philippines is being used to silence dissenting voices.

From a pandemic to geopolitics, for families and businesspeople caught by border closings, things are going from bad to worse.

Disastrous and erratic policies demand a stronger response.

Ankara shut an institution founded by religious conservatives and attacks tech companies in order to stop young Turks from accessing a free academic and media environment.

Around the world, security forces use forced displacement as a means of sorting populations. To fix the global displacement crisis, it’s critical to understand how and why they do it.

As U.S. policymakers grapple with systemic racism, it’s time to start tapping the expertise of diasporas.

Hong Kong’s cruel new law doesn’t just affect the city.

The Russian president may seem invincible, but the descent of his Belarusian comrade may hint at what’s to come.

One of the Middle East’s most westernized outposts is falling apart—and looking east for a soft landing.

Beijing’s new security law may cause mass emigration in Hong Kong.

As military expenditure soars in Pakistan despite an unprecedented economic catastrophe, Khan’s power looks to be waning.

Once an anti-Trump firebrand, the Mexican president knows he needs his U.S. counterpart—and isn’t taking any chances on the November election.

Conventional wisdom holds that New Delhi will turn to Washington as it increases competition with Beijing. But Moscow’s importance cannot be ignored.

The alliance has been so focused on Moscow that it has missed Beijing’s growing clout across Europe.

The golden era of British-Chinese relations quickly eroded—left in its place is a Conservative Party deeply divided on how to approach Beijing.

As Germany takes over the EU presidency, the country’s chancellor has an opportunity to tackle some unfinished business.

The world just lost its leading historian of fascist ideology. The late historian Zeev Sternhell would have recognized the president’s lies as propaganda in the tradition of Mussolini.

Critics aside, the administration does have a strategy, and it is based on reciprocity.

Ideological fixations have been a diplomatic and a public health disaster.

The government tried to bury evidence of a national outbreak—until Egyptians forced it to confess.

BCCI was a kleptocratic institution whose influence reached the White House—and a model for today’s global crooks.

Reforms to the Marine Corps may be necessary to face China, but Congress needs to ask hard questions.

The country is upending its national identity by finally starting to acknowledge race.

British politicians used to condescend to their U.S. counterparts. During the pandemic, they've started copying their most destructive habits.

The pandemic proved, once and for all, that the world can’t be flat. But global trade can recover—if we rewrite the rules.

The United States has abdicated its dominant role. Here’s how to fill the gap.

The Trump administration’s crusade against the International Criminal Court is misguided and will harm long-term U.S. interests.

Ethnic minorities are being targeted by family planning departments as reproduction restrictions loosen on Han Chinese.

The Turkish president wants to turn Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia back into a mosque. Destroying its dual Orthodox-Islamic heritage would be a blow to religious pluralism and tolerance.

The Assad regime is cracking under the pressure of stalemate—just like the State Department planned.

China has swung toward natalist policies for the majority while forcibly sterilizing ethnic minorities.