Argument
An expert’s point of view on a current event.
-
Pakistani Shiite Muslims in Lahore burn U.S. and Israeli flags in a protest against the killing of top Iranian commander Qassem Suleimani on Jan. 7. An Eye for an Eye Doesn’t Make Americans Safer
The Trump administration is doubling down on vengeance as a foreign-policy doctrine, placing the United States and its allies in danger.
-
Muslim women hold placards during a protest rally held against India's new citizenship law. India’s New Laws Hurt Women Most of All
New Delhi wants people to prove their citizenship. But Indian women are the demographic least likely to possess paperwork.
-
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks next to new National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien Trump Finally Has the Dangerous Foreign-Policy Process He Always Wanted
The U.S. president's new national security advisor has replaced the White House’s previous chaos with a new type of dysfunction.
-
This picture taken on November 7, 2018 shows a woman mixing medicine in the pharmacy of the Yueyang Hospital, part of the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, in Shanghai. Chinese Media Is Selling Snake Oil to Fight the Wuhan Virus
So-called traditional Chinese medicine will do more harm than good in fighting the crisis.
-
Kyriakos Mitsotakis Greece Accidentally Steered Into a Foreign-Policy Crisis
Turkey is redrawing its borders in the Aegean—and the Greek government is failing to do much about it.
-
Palestinian demonstrators burn portraits of U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the slogan in Arabic "Down with the Deal of the Century" during a protest in Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp on Jan. 31. The Trump-Netanyahu Alliance Is Endangering Americans and Israelis
The corrupt bond between Israel’s prime minister and the U.S. president might help them win elections, but it doesn’t keep their citizens safe.
-
China’s President Xi Jinping and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands ahead of talks at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on March 21, 2017. Can China Replace the United States in Israel?
Talk of new Chinese-Israeli trade deals points to more complicated relationships with Washington to come.
-
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson outlines his government’s negotiating stance with the European Union after Brexit during a key speech at the Old Royal Naval College in London on Feb. 3. Brexit Is Fake News
You can check out of Europe, but you can never leave.
-
Medical workers hold a strike near Queen Mary Hospital to demand the government shut the city's border with China to reduce the spread of the coronavirus in Hong Kong on Feb. 3. Chinese Officials Can’t Help Lying About the Wuhan Virus
Despite calls for transparency, repression is baked into the system.
-
Indonesian health officials stand next to a banner showing information about the Wuhan coronavirus at Juanda International Airport in Sidoarjo, East Java, on Jan. 30. Coronavirus Boosts Indonesian Anti-Chinese Conspiracies
Wild claims of Chinese plots are spreading fast on social media.
-
Playing cards showing details of missing children are displayed in Beijing on March 31, 2007. Human Trafficking Helps Terrorists Earn Money and Strategic Advantage
The United States should get serious about ending slavery once and for all.
-
Protesters fly Union Jack flags and hold banners as they demonstrate outside City Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Jan. 12, 2013, amid protests against City Hall's decision not to fly the Union Jack every day. Northern Ireland Is in a Culture War. Brexit Is Making It Worse.
Nationalists and unionists are in a battle for cultural supremacy, complicating the U.K.’s withdrawal from the EU.
-
Prime Minister Boris Johnson hosts Chinese New Year celebrations outside 10 Downing Street on January 24 in London. Britain Knows It’s Selling Out Its National Security to Huawei
London’s justification for cooperating with the Chinese telecommunications company is riddled with obvious contradictions.
-
A New York City police officer stands in fog after a water main break on Broadway in New York on Jan. 13. Obamacare for Geopolitics
The United States needs better insurance against attacks—whether by Mother Nature or human actors.
-
People carry a giant Belarusian historical white-red-white flag during a rally against a Belarusian-Russian integration project in Minsk on Dec. 7, 2019. The Birth of Belarusian Nationalism
In trying to bring Belarus and Russia together, Lukashenko may have awakened his country’s citizens to how independent they really want to be.
