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The Russian autocrat’s end has been predicted, wrongly, for two decades.

Right-wing nationalists are spreading a dangerous “stab-in-the-back” myth to explain Russia’s crushing defeats.

On Middle East politics, Jared Kushner is not the disruptor he says he is.

Al Qaeda once again has a safe haven in Afghanistan, endangering Americans.

Framing geopolitics in terms of democracy and autocracy won’t necessarily help bring peace.

USAID now has a playbook to check bad actors.

Ignore the naysayers—the long-prepared plan is a smart way to slash the Kremlin’s profits.

The former U.S. president took control of a party that had already destroyed itself, several new books contend, and his malign influence will long survive him.

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The Kremlin has turned a dead propagandist into a symbol of the war—and a call to kill more Ukrainians.

Compromise is becoming increasingly difficult—especially over Taiwan.

The country’s fragile postwar democracy is threatened like never before.

The White House’s crowning domestic policy achievement can’t reach its full potential without engaging the world.

India’s liberal founders recede from view as its current leaders craft a new, less tolerant nation.

On the sad anniversary of the chaotic U.S. pullout, Afghanistan is once again primed for terror.

Top secret classified information was among the documents recovered from the former president’s Florida resort.

Yet plenty of Western intellectuals and politicians still ignore what Moscow is saying loud and clear.

Outspoken supporters of Russia are likely to play key roles in the next government.

More than 70,000 Afghans who worked for the United States are still waiting for visas—unless the Taliban get to them first.