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Khalid bin Salman is working full time to extricate Saudi Arabia from the disastrous conflict begun by his brother. Some regional and U.S. officials are cautiously optimistic.
Even when the country wants a deal, at least four largely psychological impediments get in the way.
In the Balkan wars, women were targets. In postwar governments, they’ve been pushed out of sight.
President Paul Biya won’t get anywhere without engaging directly with separatist grievances.
The Trump administration’s peace deal for Afghanistan needs a plan for the country’s most looming threat: international terrorists whom both sides oppose.
American elites used to see war as a tragic necessity. Now they’re completely addicted to it.
Critics of offshore balancing claim a more restrained U.S. foreign policy will breed insecurity. They’re wrong, and their arguments are easily debunked.
Migrants in Bosnia, a swan roundup in Germany, and protests in Bolivia, Zimbabwe, and Hong Kong.
Celebration and uncertainty in Germany as communism crumbled on Nov. 9, 1989.
Trump’s trade wars aren’t just about him or China—but global economic imbalances that the next U.S. administration will still have to address.
The only way to save journalism is to make readers direct participants in making, and paying for, the media.
Feeling guilty for the carbon burned on your last flight? The Germans have a word for that.
Two new memoirs by Samantha Power and Susan Rice show how idealists became insiders—and what was lost along the way.