United States

The only way to prevent America’s two-party system from succumbing to extremism is to scrap it altogether.

Trump’s trade wars aren’t just about him or China—but global economic imbalances that the next U.S. administration will still have to address.

The same impulse that brought Trump to power could save U.S. democracy.

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

The United States has slapped sanctions on companies tied to Chinese repression. That may be just the start.

The ruthless Syrian dictator is guilty of countless war crimes—and regrettably represents his country’s least bad remaining option.

Washington has abandoned the Kurds. If Europe doesn’t bolster its defenses, the Poles, Lithuanians, and Latvians could be next. 

Western leaders long saw the authoritarian Meles Zenawi as an indispensable ally. Now, they’ve found a new hero in Abiy Ahmed. But is the Nobel Prize an effort to make amends or influence Ethiopia’s political future?

Leaving the refugee crisis unresolved while legitimizing the brutal Assad regime will only do further harm to U.S. interests in the Middle East.

How the U.S. government is failing women in foreign policy.

The seeds of Washington’s abandonment of the Kurds traces back to a classified document written in the 1970s by Henry Kissinger.

If Maduro hands the refining company over to his creditors, it would be bad news for the opposition—and the United States.

Both the United States and China want a bargain. But they’re fooling themselves if they think it’s happening.

Under Trump, the relationship between the two populations has suffered. The next president should change that.

U.S. strategy in Syria has long been plagued by short-term thinking, while Russia, Turkey, and Iran played a long game. Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds is just the latest chapter in Washington’s bungled approach to the region.

Turkey bombs Syrian Kurds, Poland goes to the polls, and the NBA bows to Chinese pressure.

The U.S. president has imported prodazhnist’, Ukraine’s distinctive culture of crookedness, where everyone has a price and politics has no value.

Mini-deal between the United States and China brings relief to farmers but offers no long-term solutions.