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

Searching for the next holy grail of foreign policy is stopping the United States from solving the world’s most pressing problems.

Meet five unlikely saviors of Earth's climate crisis.

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

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

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

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

The solutions to climate change lie far, far away.

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

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.

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.

The latest front in a return to Cold War rivalry is the effort to build an all-American rocket for military launches.

The United States faces great-power enemies. It needs a military focused on fighting them.

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

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

To secure itself, the West needs to figure out where all its gadgets are coming from. Here’s why that’s so difficult.

How Brexit could spell the end of Britain’s famed advantage in intelligence.

Changes in technology, politics, and business are all transforming espionage. Intelligence agencies must adapt—or risk irrelevance.

The very long history of industrial espionage.

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.

Why the world desperately needs digital Geneva Conventions.

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

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.

Kurdish officials once dreamed of forging their own state out of the ashes of the war against the Islamic State. Now they are fighting for their very survival.

Exporting British Columbia’s abundant energy resources should have been a slam dunk. How did a multibillion-dollar dream go up in smoke?

There’s nothing wrong with political tribes that can’t be fixed by what’s right with them.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, solutions to many of the world’s toughest problems already exist—you just need to know where to look for them.

The problem isn’t too much democracy — it’s too little.