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Top Thai Court Suspends Prime Minister Pending Ethics Investigation
Paetongtarn Shinawatra is accused of violating the constitution in a phone call with former Cambodian leader Hun Sen.

No Winners in Thailand-Cambodia Border Dispute
The Thai prime minister’s coalition is hanging by a thread, while her Cambodian counterpart looks sidelined.

Time and Beijing Are Working Against Myanmar’s Resistance
As fighting drags on, sieges and Chinese pressure may allow Myanmar’s military junta to consolidate its power.

How Rare Earths Became China’s Top Trade Weapon
Washington wasn’t always so vulnerable to Beijing’s chokehold.

Why Zbig Still Matters
Biographer Edward Luce on the life and legacy of former national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Why Southeast Asia Is Flocking to BRICS
The expanding bloc has become a hedge against future geopolitical shifts.

Israel’s War on Iran Backfired
Despite what it claims, Israel failed to achieve its goals in its latest war.

The Middle East’s End of Ideology
Across the region, transnational movements are giving way to a political model based on strong states.

Australia Can’t Have Its Geopolitics Both Ways
Trump forces a reckoning with China on a key Indo-Pacific ally.

Deadly Israeli Strikes on Gaza Threaten Cease-Fire Talks
Top Israeli officials are in Washington to push for a U.S.-backed truce deal.

The End of Modernity
A crisis is unfolding before our eyes—and also in our heads.

Why Compare the Present to the Past?
Thinking via historical analogy has become the preferred way to confront our anxieties.

How Trump Will Be Remembered
No other president has made his time in office so nakedly about himself and his legacy.

An American Caesar
Comparing two leaders, two millennia apart.

How a Nazi Jurist Captured Imaginations on the U.S. Left and Right
It’s Carl Schmitt’s world, and we’re all just living in it.