Analysis

Political paranoia is making it hard for the Chinese Communist Party to sell its own narrative.

The immigration issue is there for the taking for Democrats—if they don’t treat it as a culture war.

In competing for lucrative reconstruction contracts, China, Italy, France, Russia, and others are preventing the conflict from ending.

With more strategic investments, Japan may hold a key to sustainable development on the continent.

The private sector can give the United States a much-needed rocket boost.

Europe’s biggest economy could easily stop its own slide into long-term stagnation—but it would prefer not to.

It’s not just that climate change is ravaging the world’s agriculture. Agriculture is also ravaging the climate.

Religious leaders can help convince the most ethnocentric and authoritarian U.S. voters to oppose Washington’s backing of abusive dictators.

The Law and Justice party is trying to reframe the fight against the Nazis and communism—and the U.S. president is a useful pawn.

The Italian leader played buffoon, victim, and messiah. Others have followed suit.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s capitulation to the White House over Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib’s visit has harmed his country’s image and profoundly endangered bipartisan support in the U.S. Congress.

French philosophy came to define the postwar era. As U.S. politics get ever more absurd, it’s time for a comeback.