Q&A
List of Q&A articles
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Ukrainian service members fire on Russian positions. What We’ve Learned From the War in Ukraine
David Petraeus and Anne-Marie Slaughter reflect on what’s surprised them—and how to prevent future wars.
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A worker explains a photo of construction to an interior plasma chamber. Adam Tooze: Why Nuclear Fusion Is Not the Holy Grail
A recent breakthrough is good news, but renewables are still the better bet.
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U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks. Adam Tooze: Washington Is Undermining the Trade System It Helped Build
The World Trade Organization nears a breaking point over U.S. tariffs against China.
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A cul-de-sac runs through a new housing development in Middlesex Township, Pennsylvania. Tooze on How Low the U.S. Housing Market Could Go in 2023
High interest rates are roiling the real estate market and rippling across the world economy.
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U.S. President Joe Biden (R) and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Bali. Stephen Walt on the Underweighted Risks of 2023
A realist POV on the war in Ukraine, competition with China, COVID, and more.
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People help dig out a plow after an intense lake-effect snowstorm hit the area around Hamburg, New York, on Nov. 18. Tooze on How Climate Change Will Alter the Economics of Winter
Less snowfall won’t necessarily mean fewer megastorms.
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Members of the People’s Liberation Army band file out after the closing session of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing on Oct. 22. What to Expect From China in 2023
Three experts predict how Beijing will manage China’s economy, the pandemic, protests, Taiwan, and relations with Washington.
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U.S President Joe Biden delivers remarks on Dec. 15 alongside Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C. Stephen Walt on How 2022 Changed the World
And why the Biden administration gets a B-minus for foreign policy.
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A rescuer walks through rubble in Ukraine. Tooze on the ‘Dramatic Reconceptualization’ of Europe
How the war in Ukraine will remake the continent.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation. Is India Losing Its Claim to Being a Democracy?
Historian Ramachandra Guha explains how Narendra Modi is eroding real people power.
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Workers are seen in Doha, Qatar. Will Qatar Always Be Rich?
Natural gas has made Doha wildly prosperous, but can it last in the era of climate change?
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Margrethe Vestager, the EU competition commissioner, speaks at a press conference in Brussels, Belgium. EU’s Vestager: Brussels Is Shedding Its Friendly Stance on Beijing
Margrethe Vestager speaks on Europe waking up to a systemic rivalry with China and how to avert a trade war with Washington.
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Frans Timmermans, Vice-President of the European Commission, talks to journalists after the closing ceremony of the UN Climate Summit COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Europe’s Climate Chief: The 1.5-Degree Goal Is on ‘Life Support’
Frans Timmermans on COP27 and how Brussels navigates a frosty relationship between Washington and Beijing.
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A woman holds a blank sheet of paper as demonstrators protest the deaths caused by an apartment complex fire in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China, at the Langson Library on the campus of the University of California, Irvine. What Xi’s Zero-COVID Fiasco Might Mean for China and the World
Protests spotlight the regime's misguided approach to the pandemic and lackluster vaccination campaign.
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U.S. Iran envoy Robert Malley testified on the Iran nuclear deal. Biden’s Iran Envoy: Sanctions Are ‘Not the Answer’
Robert Malley on the stalled nuclear deal and Washington’s plan to help Iran’s protesters.
