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The Russian president has gotten a lot of mileage out of his “craziest man on the world stage” shtick. In a Trump White House, he may have met his match.

Will President-elect Trump shatter America’s most important bilateral relationship?

A Hong Kong court could soon decide on the future legal relationship between the city and the mainland.

The GOP has become the party of populism. Now the Democrats have to build a new party of multicultural cosmopolitanism.

In countries like Afghanistan, there is no government without patronage. It’s time for Washington to face up to this reality.

Here's how the next president can transform Obama's Iran deal into something worthy of the name.

The presidency-elect can’t kill the agreement directly – but he could undermine it from within.

What it means to live without a leader of the free world.

A imperiled minority fears that latent demons of intolerance and violence have been released into the wild.

Democracy is supposed to enact the will of the people. But what if the people have no clue what they’re doing?

China’s leaders are looking forward to a President Trump who offers less resistance and more hypocrisy. But Beijing's triumph may cost it in the end.

A surprising number of pro-Erdogan commentators are looking to "Make America Great Again."