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Dire American warnings about the threat from Beijing fall on deaf ears at the Munich Security Conference.

After impeachment, the president has been passing most of the checkpoints on the way to authoritarianism.

Ending the Visiting Forces Agreement between the Philippines and the United States is a deeply unpopular move.

Arab countries are looking for partners who aren’t bogged down by chaos ranging from impeachment to Iowa.

The agency’s history of bloody-handed bungling abroad has come back to haunt U.S. politics.

Cutting dysfunctional programs offers a start to ending American primacy.

Deterrence theorists are pushing ideas that have never been tested.

Nigerian entrepreneurship and creativity have always found a home in the United States—until now.

The Trump administration is doubling down on vengeance as a foreign-policy doctrine, placing the United States and its allies in danger.

The corrupt bond between Israel’s prime minister and the U.S. president might help them win elections, but it doesn’t keep their citizens safe.

Talk of new Chinese-Israeli trade deals points to more complicated relationships with Washington to come.

Arab states might accept Trump’s one-sided initiative, but an increasingly vocal new generation of Palestinians won’t allow regional leaders to sign away their right to a sovereign homeland.

The United States should get serious about ending slavery once and for all.

As it improvises its way through a public health crisis, the United States has never been less prepared for a pandemic.

The United States needs better insurance against attacks—whether by Mother Nature or human actors.