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The United States has spent far more time obscuring its role in the Saudi-led war in Yemen than in explaining any rationale for it.

Good riddance to the so-called strategic relationship between Washington and Ankara.

Four strategies that other countries can use to deal with a suddenly unpredictable superpower.

Michelle Bachelet has just been tapped as the U.N.’s high commissioner for human rights—but her predecessor’s experience should make her wary.

Saudi Arabia has started a crisis with Canada because it doesn't want to admit its own failings.

Realists need to get a lot more realistic about the global legal system.

The world needs new institutions for a new era—and nostalgia for a past that never existed won't help.

An attack on one isn't really an attack on all and four other misunderstood facts about the Western defense alliance.

The world thought it had fought the HIV virus to a stalemate—but its strategy was flawed in ways that are only now becoming clear.

Riling up the public against Moscow is good for Democrats in the short term—and bad for America.

Bashar al-Assad won. It’s worth thinking about why the United States didn’t.

The only people who can stop his sucking up to Russia have lost all their credibility.

When the U.S. president looks at Vladimir Putin, he doesn't see his handler. He sees his dad.

With escalating drug prices and growing vaccine paranoia, American populism is taking down the edifice of global public health.

Trump’s summit with Putin risks tarnishing a legacy of Republican moral leadership.

From alienating allies to starting trade wars, Trump has made plenty of foreign-policy errors. But his biggest blunder is the one Obama handed him.

It’s reassuring to think authoritarian governments depart with their leaders. It’s also wrong.

Donald Trump’s trans-Atlantic policy is a contradiction in terms.

The one thing that's clear about Erdogan's re-election bid is that everything is unclear.

The world is less dangerous than it was a year ago — but the long-term trends, if you're not American, have gotten cloudier.