For Iran and the United States, August 24 was Groundhog Day. “We are launching an economic onslaught against Iran’s financial connections around the globe,” declared U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott ...

Twenty-five years ago, members of the jihadi group al-Qaeda hijacked four American airplanes, flying two of them into the World Trade Center towers in New York City and one into the Pentagon, in ...

Many observers in both Beijing and Washington view the emerging consensus as a contingent result of the interests of the two men currently in charge. Trump, for instance, has taken it upon himself to ...

In a world of great-power standoffs, climatic tipping points, and technological arms races, global hunger may not seem like a particularly significant problem. Yet last year, a total of 2.1 billion ...

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Separated from China by a roughly 100-mile-wide strait, Taiwan relies on its navy as the first line of defense against a potential invasion. It must be able to prevent an assault by a Chinese force ...

Six months in, the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran has settled into a stalemate. Neither Washington nor Tehran can achieve a clear military or diplomatic victory. Instead, the two sides have found ...

Among its many advantages, the United States benefits from a rare form of geographic luck: it is bracketed on the east and west by two vast moats in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and only two ...

In July, Bloomberg reported that for the first time in roughly two decades of Pew Research Center global polling, the world now views China more favorably than the United States. The sentiment was not ...

As he prepares to face Israeli voters next month after three years of incessant war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has formulated a new strategy. Ignoring the huge costs in blood and ...