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Aug 21, 2026
But Tehran's top crude buyer appears unwilling to play ball.
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Aug 21, 2026
Anton Jager explains why record voter turnout isn't leading to systemic change.
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Aug 21, 2026
Early policy choices shaped the inequity and employment challenges facing the country today.
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Aug 21, 2026
Northern Ireland's most outlandish plan comes to fruition in Jan Carson's new novel.
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Aug 21, 2026
Nepotism could tank the far right's chances in Brazil.
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Aug 21, 2026
A new survey reveals a preference for the U.S. president's transactional approach.
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Aug 21, 2026
The U.S. president has simultaneously demolished key relationships in East Asia and the Middle East.
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Aug 21, 2026
Tactical excellence can never salvage strategic incompetence.
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Aug 21, 2026
Trump's policies offer the region all the downsides of traditional U.S. policy with none of the benefits.
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Aug 21, 2026
Washington has favored bullets over business in its dealings with slow-growing Ecuador.
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Aug 20, 2026
The administration's latest strategy document tries to balance technological competition with cooperation.
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Aug 20, 2026
Senior Canadian officials are looking to make a deal to avoid new 50 percent U.S. tariffs.
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Aug 20, 2026
Scott Bessent is breaking the glass to check rising bond yields, but the fix is flawed.
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Aug 20, 2026
Why Spain's Sánchez has succeeded while Britain's Starmer floundered.
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Aug 20, 2026
Despite 20 percent of global deposits, the country produces less than 1 percent of supply.
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Aug 20, 2026
The Freedom Tech Excellence Program also includes the Bitcoin Policy Institute and the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
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Aug 20, 2026
The Trump administration's peace plan has invested its hopes for Gaza's future in the little-known Ali Shaath.
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Aug 19, 2026
Abu Dhabi is hoping that a trade embargo will force Tehran to surrender.
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Aug 19, 2026
The brutish group has been surprisingly stable since snatching power in 2021. Rockier times may lie ahead.
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Aug 19, 2026
Political appeasement won't buy off hostile powers.
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Aug 19, 2026
The effects of the coming "super" El Niño will reach beyond the continent.
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Aug 19, 2026
How useful is a theory about power that consistently fails to explain what the world's most powerful country does?
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Aug 19, 2026
A White House endorsement could improve the Israeli leader's chances of winning.
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Aug 19, 2026
Their husbands died defending the country—and now their families are struggling for compensation.
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Aug 19, 2026
As Delcy Rodríguez clings to power, dissidents wonder who to trust.
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Aug 19, 2026
"Without USAID support, all you have left is the rule of the ganglord."
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Aug 19, 2026
If Trump wants to negotiate, he must stop making denuclearization the price of admission.
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Aug 19, 2026
U.S. government actions undermined the Trump official's Southeast Asian tour.
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Aug 18, 2026
London vows to continue aiding Ukraine's war effort.
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Aug 18, 2026
Under Xi, the once-collective gathering has become something else.
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Aug 18, 2026
Despite administration promises, aid cuts are leaving Afghan mothers and children to die.
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Aug 18, 2026
Simply lowering energy prices for U.S. consumers is "goal No. 1"
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Aug 18, 2026
The president's son is wielding increased power with impunity.
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Aug 18, 2026
Washington's new strategy is little more than a euphemism for unpredictability.
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Aug 17, 2026
The United States scales back joint military drills with Seoul to appease Pyongyang.
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Aug 17, 2026
Caribbean laborers report rat-infested rooms and abusive bosses.
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Aug 17, 2026
Aliza Marcus's Resurgence and Revolution sheds light on the past and future of the Kurdish cause.
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Aug 17, 2026
Beijing is systematically countering U.S. and European sanctions efforts by expanding its jurisdiction.
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Aug 17, 2026
He's been one of the most consequential presidents in U.S. history—in all the wrong ways.
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Aug 17, 2026
A new movie shows how the president conferred with State Department experts before each meeting.
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Aug 17, 2026
Unlike other U.S. allies, Canberra is betting its entire strategic house on Pax Americana.
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Aug 14, 2026
The administration made moves on drones, cyberwarfare, and ship building.
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Aug 14, 2026
Test yourself on the week of Aug. 8: A major earthquake hits Colombia, Lebanon achieves a regional first, and parts of Europe enjoy a solar eclipse.
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Aug 14, 2026
If liberalism does not remake itself, it will be antidemocratic alternatives that win out.
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Aug 14, 2026
Fifty years after "The Quiet American," has the country outlived Graham Greene's prophecy?
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Aug 14, 2026
Just war theory was developed over centuries—and now must adapt to a new era of technology.
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Aug 14, 2026
Young college graduates are struggling to find jobs.
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Aug 14, 2026
Emotional reassurance came to be mistaken for competent governance.
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Aug 14, 2026
Under President Xi Jinping, politics and security, not real change, come first.
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Aug 14, 2026
Trump's war is "The Best and the Brightest"—but without the best and the brightest.
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Aug 14, 2026
Monday's deadly earthquake presents the country's new president with his first big test.
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Aug 13, 2026
The fight has offered Iran and other adversaries a clear picture of U.S. weaknesses.
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Aug 13, 2026
U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee issued a rare condemnation of settler "terrorists."
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Aug 13, 2026
The supreme leader's new government appointments reveal the outlines of his military strategy.
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Aug 13, 2026
A spate of new attacks believed to be linked to Iran has highlighted the water sector's vulnerability.
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Aug 13, 2026
Doha's ties to Gaza and Hamas make it deeply controversial but also indispensable.
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Aug 13, 2026
Battle-tested tech from Ukraine has reached the region's armed groups—and governments are struggling to catch up.
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Aug 12, 2026
The mutual defense agreement gives Islamabad a boost in the Middle East, with mixed results closer to home.
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Aug 12, 2026
The country's natural resources have put the vote under intense international scrutiny.
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Aug 12, 2026
Kyiv and Moscow are trading heavier and heavier blows.
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Aug 12, 2026
Beijing is a pioneer in softer tools of transnational repression.
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Aug 12, 2026
Moscow will soon have to redirect a growing share of its exports to Asia.
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Aug 12, 2026
A Bangkok visit by junta leader Min Aung Hlaing reinforced the two countries' ties.
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Aug 12, 2026
Tehran's proxy risks pushing a newly consolidated Saudi Arabia into an all-out ground war.
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Aug 11, 2026
What's behind the defense pact between Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan.
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Aug 11, 2026
The technology is far less divisive than in the United States.
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Aug 11, 2026
President Abelardo de la Espriella took office mere days before a major earthquake struck the country.
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Aug 11, 2026
Tehran has long called for greater cooperation among Muslim states. The Mecca pact is not what it had in mind.
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Aug 11, 2026
Mark Carney's vision has gone unrealized, but that doesn't mean states should give up.
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Aug 11, 2026
The Trump administration is following in the footsteps of authoritarian regimes by weaponizing global banking rules against its enemies.
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Aug 11, 2026
Seldom before has the U.S. government intervened so actively in the economy.
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Aug 11, 2026
Beijing's choice moves Washington's leverage from tariffs to currency.
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Aug 11, 2026
With his Gaza plan dead in the water, he should refocus on preventing the next conflagration.
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Aug 11, 2026
The migrant crisis has underscored Madrid's increasingly tenuous geopolitical position.
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Aug 10, 2026
Another weekend with no resolution to the Middle East's wars.
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Aug 10, 2026
From refugees to abducted children, Russia has wreaked havoc on young Ukrainians.
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Aug 10, 2026
Punishing heat and wildfires have cost billions and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
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Aug 10, 2026
The Trump administration's campaign against the court is transparently cynical.
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Aug 10, 2026
Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre" triggered nationwide outage—and a firewall which is now gone.
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Aug 07, 2026
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey pledge mutual defense in the face of aggressive Iranian and Israeli operations.
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Aug 07, 2026
Social callousness pushes even the prosperous to seek new lives overseas.
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Aug 07, 2026
After Hormuz, global waterways will return to being sites of bloody contention.
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Aug 07, 2026
Thomas Wright on the post-Cold War order.
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Aug 07, 2026
Plus, a satire about a Nigerian on holiday, and more international fiction in August.
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Aug 07, 2026
The latest leftward shift was shorter-lived and less accomplished than its predecessor.
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Aug 06, 2026
Any level of Iranian control would mark a major geopolitical shift in Tehran's favor.
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Aug 06, 2026
The history of the disputed exclave should inform what Spain does next.
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Aug 06, 2026
Washington isn't sure how to counter Chinese technological advancements.
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Aug 06, 2026
Benjamin Netanyahu's reelection as prime minister would hasten the illiberal drift.
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Aug 06, 2026
Satellite images are plentiful, affordable, and easy to fake. Providers will benefit from curbing their misuse.
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Aug 06, 2026
Rural neglect has produced a continual security crisis.
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Aug 06, 2026
Strikes on ports and ships could portend another global food shortage.
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Aug 06, 2026
Experts say political uncertainty makes the Trump-backed plan untenable, for now.
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Aug 05, 2026
Kyiv has run out of Patriot interceptors, but allies remain reluctant to supply more.
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Aug 05, 2026
Pretoria's influence across Africa may be waning following widespread xenophobic attacks.
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Aug 05, 2026
The region has become ground zero for protests against poor governance.
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Aug 05, 2026
Missed opportunities and strategic blunders have plagued Riyadh.
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Aug 05, 2026
Washington has a long record of fighting the wrong war for the wrong objective.
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Aug 05, 2026
The Fed chair "is really rolling the dice" while holding out against interest rate hikes, one expert said.
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Aug 05, 2026
In their willingness to blame Spain, European leaders have shown they cannot be trusted on collective security.
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