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In 1997, the former Soviet leader needed money, and Pizza Hut needed a spokesman. Greatness ensued.

Beginning with special representative James Jeffrey, U.S. officials consistently misread the threat from Turkey.

Zabulon Simentov has seen it all, and now, like all Afghans, he must embrace a future filled with uncertainty and violence.

The race for the top job at an obscure U.N. agency tested great-power influence on the world stage—and Beijing coasted into a victory over Washington.

How to fix U.S. democracy, populism, trade, and other pressing issues.

Wealthy Chinese are pushing to overturn their national cuisine’s image as fast and cheap.

The European Union is funding the Libyan coast guard to keep migrants out of Europe and detain them in a failed state—and that leaves them at the mercy of militias and human traffickers.

Decriminalization saves lives. But Canada is only just accepting that reality—and the United States is even further behind.

Forty years ago, a U.S. satellite detected the telltale signs of a nuclear explosion. An analysis of the evidence today points to a clandestine nuclear test, a Carter administration cover-up, and only one country that was willing and able to carry it out: Israel.

Find out how the Democrats agree and differ on key global issues.

The solutions to climate change lie far, far away.

Dramatic projects to mitigate global warming often don’t work. Slow, quiet, incremental policies are the planet’s best hope.

Meet five unlikely saviors of Earth's climate crisis.

Young people care a lot about climate change—but most of them can’t vote. Here’s how governments can adapt to accommodate them.

A decade after the world bailed out finance, it’s time for finance to bail out the world.

Crops already suck up a lot of carbon dioxide. One scientist thinks they can do much more.

The blame for Ankara’s antagonistic stance to Washington lies with both sides, a product of decades of misunderstandings.

Scammed by opportunistic agents, African students seeking a future in the EU have ended up stuck in Northern Cyprus—some of them left for dead.

As China pushes clean energy policies at home, it is exporting its high-pollution coal industry to pristine places like Kenya’s Lamu Island—with Nairobi’s seal of approval. Local residents fear it will destroy the environment they depend on.

The only way to win the next superpower showdown is to understand what exactly caused it.

After two decades of war in the desert, Canadian troops must relearn how to operate in the frozen north.

America’s laden tables used to wow queens and premiers. But is state dinner diplomacy as outdated as lobster aspic?

Ambassadors try to understand more about Trump’s America by seeing it for themselves.

The militants’ new strategy is to out-govern the U.S.-backed administration in Kabul—and it’s working.

Why the world desperately needs digital Geneva Conventions.

U.S. and U.N. diplomats overlooked atrocity amid hopes of democracy.

AI will change everything. Workers must adapt — or else.

Many remain critical, others have repented, but all are shut out from the Trump State Department.

Once upon a time, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle would have been instruments of foreign-policy ambition.

Why #MeToo skipped Russia.

The latest ranking of the top 50 IR programs for undergraduates, master's, and Ph.D.s.

Donald Trump has changed the world — and some people will understand it better than others.

Sex scandals have a long history of taking down politicians — but don't get your hopes up about the current U.S. president.