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U.S. political parties have reshuffled every few decades, and 2020 may be the year they do it again.

For decades, U.S. strategists were thinking short-term. Its leaders should start taking an infinite perspective.

The continent's pop culture market is booming, just as U.S.-Chinese competition is heating up.

The best way to advance U.S. interests isn’t to chastise the United Nations—it’s to participate actively in its proceedings.

The postwar institution designed to maintain global peace has fallen short of many goals, but on the whole succeeded.

It doesn’t matter whether Bush or Trump was worse when the problems are the same.

No matter the president, Washington won’t stand for Brasilia’s growing ties with Beijing.

Washington’s reliance on sanctions and maximum pressure will make it harder to strike a new deal constraining Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.

Why partition may be the only solution to Lebanon’s woes, what the bestselling book “Caste” ignores about India’s caste structure, and Britain’s distraction from its real economic problems.

Retaining the U.S. advantage needs funding, not xenophobia.

Todd Stern, Obama’s right hand at the Paris accords, says this U.S. election is make-or-break for efforts to fight runaway climate change.

But the White House ceremony is marred by events back in Israel, including his mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic.

Deals with the UAE and Bahrain demonstrate the Palestinian issue is no longer a barrier to Israeli-Arab cooperation.

With its economy in trouble, Tehran will have to talk to Washington. But the next administration shouldn’t rush things.

The vaccine partnership would help ensure equitable access to a COVID-19 vaccine—including in the United States—but Trump won’t participate.