Russia’s president has been shaped by decades of bitterness and revenge.
The Biden administration shut down a touchpoint for thousands of refugees from Afghanistan—and left its diplomats in agonizing limbo.
Harned Hoose played both sides of the U.S.-China relationship—including during Nixon’s famous trip.
Baghdad can’t rebuild its infrastructure and agricultural sector when its land remains littered with thousands of explosive devices.
Modern civilizations are forged with sand, but soaring extraction has come at an alarming price.
More than 30 experts grade the U.S. president’s first year of foreign policy.
Some are working on resistance. Others, consular services. And all of them must figure out how to keep their embassy’s lights on.
Next year’s contests are set to bring populist reckonings, parliamentary headaches, and a possible democratic crisis or two.
Battle deaths may be down, but regional wars continue to rage as great-power confrontations loom, from Ukraine to Taiwan, amid declining U.S. influence.
So why are most of them not paid enough—and some not paid at all?
A three-decade dream of communist markets ended in the scrapyard.
Fights about the party’s past are serious business in Beijing.
Can the Haudenosaunee Confederacy become the first Indigenous nation to secure an Olympic berth?
Putin’s pursuit of influence, arms sales, and mercenary meddling in the Central African Republic has left Moscow mired in a quagmire.
Ahmed Rabbani’s journey through the U.S. dark prison system to Guantánamo.
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Beijing’s shock-and-awe military response has created a new normal in East Asia.
India’s liberal founders recede from view as its current leaders craft a new, less tolerant nation.
The Biden administration shut down a touchpoint for thousands of refugees from Afghanistan—and left its diplomats in agonizing limbo.
Harned Hoose played both sides of the U.S.-China relationship—including during Nixon’s famous trip.
