For decades, Chinese leaders thought they knew the man who would become America’s 46th president. But he was changing all along.
As China’s economic miracle fades, its leaders may become more inclined to take risks.
The United States needs to right-size the China threat to know how to counter it.
Global economics will never be the same—but not in the ways you might think.
The meaning of Russia’s war in Ukraine is its own national weakness.
The language of “sacrifice” reveals we’re stuck in a colonial mindset.
Whether as Italy’s prime minister or its president, he may not have the solution to Italy’s problems.
Elected officials work through compromise, but a warming planet waits for no one.
The key to reconciling the French president’s many political contradictions is his widely misunderstood philosophical mentor.
To protect democracy, we have to first figure out why it’s worth saving.
How to make sense of the new global trend that grants legal rights to animals, plants, and rivers.
The race is on to tell—or sell—the right story about global warming.
How the U.S. Navy lost the shipbuilding race.
History reveals a country’s rise and decline are directly related to the heft of its navy. So why is the United States intent on downsizing?
Zaki Anwari represented what a free Afghanistan could achieve. His gruesome death is a vivid reminder of the human toll of U.S. abandonment.