With protesters crushed and memorials removed, there’s no room for campus dissent.
Decades of Western support for dictators have caused a crisis of democracy.
The dirty secret of the Russian military is that long-conquered subjects are the Kremlin’s cannon fodder.
Despite its failings, the Russian military is still a powerful force.
The good news: Lockdowns reduced crime almost everywhere else, and we know how to stop lethal violence.
Despite two months of anti-government protests, Gotabaya Rajapaksa doesn’t seem like a leader preparing to relinquish power.
Where it counts—in the halls of government and boardrooms—the effort to boycott Israel doesn’t even register.
Russia is digging in across the southeast.
Climate despair is understandable but misplaced.
The Taliban didn’t have to take over. But Washington made sure they would.
European leaders have reassessed Russia’s intentions and are balancing against the threat that Putin poses to the territorial status quo.
State weakness has created a callous and brutalized soldiery.
The moral, legal, and public relations risks of staying are huge.
Central Europe and the Balkans expose the failures of European integration.
Beijing has long lived with U.S. alliances in Asia, but a realigned India would change the game.