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Our top reads on Boris Johnson's unlikely route to 10 Downing Street.

The U.S. president is desperate to salvage peace talks with the Taliban, even if it means cozying up to Pakistan at the expense of America’s newest partner in the Indo-Pacific.

From annexing Belarus to reforming the constitution, speculation about how the Russian president will stay in power is rife. The question is whether any of the gambits will work.

In Congo, thousands of people have died due to a misguided finance-driven approach to fighting pandemics that puts investors before victims.

Stepping up enforcement of FARA before reforming the act is a recipe for disaster.

Critics of offshore balancing claim a more restrained U.S. foreign policy will breed insecurity. They’re wrong, and their arguments are easily debunked.

The State Department’s latest intervention in a European election served nobody’s interests at all.

U.S. health aid can also promote stability, mitigate extremism, and avoid costly longer-term military interventions.

U.S. needs in Afghanistan have overridden promises to get tough on Islamabad.

The president of Turkmenistan is probably alive. But as with so much else in the country, it’s hard to tell.

Using the financial 'death penalty' may be dangerous overreach.

From a trade war with China to women’s rights around the world, here’s what has captured our readers’ attention in the first half of the year.

Japan and South Korea continue a historic dispute while Turkey exits the F-35 program amid tensions with the United States.

The solutions to climate change lie far, far away.

Dramatic projects to mitigate global warming often don’t work. Slow, quiet, incremental policies are the planet’s best hope.

Young people care a lot about climate change—but most of them can’t vote. Here’s how governments can adapt to accommodate them.

Meet five unlikely saviors of Earth's climate crisis.