Eighteen months later, however, the United States is bogged down in a new war in the Middle East. Although the U.S. military has enjoyed tactical successes, Washington has not achieved any kind of ...

With the war in Ukraine heading into what will seemingly be a bloody winter for both Russia and Ukraine, there is one person who does not appear to have suffered on the home front: Russian President ...

In this view, the spread of AI through the economy will generate such tremendous growth that it will generate huge new tax revenues that will help pay off the debt. But any reduction in the debt ...

Among the many sectors shaping China’s economic strategy toward the United States and other Western countries, few are as important as food and agriculture. As one of the worlds ...

For decades, these countries have subsided on a lean diet of foreign aid from major donor governments and the United Nations, the World Bank, and other multilateral institutions. Yet under President ...

Tensions between North Korea and South Korea are mounting, which raises the possibility of conflict that could spill beyond the Korean Peninsula. Security coordination among Japan, South Korea, and ...

The quest for machine superintelligence is not merely a gold rush, motivated by money. In the minds of many of its leaders, the arrival of a new form of cognition has a tingling, existential feel ...

After the most unusual election in modern U.S. history came the most unusual transition, to be followed, surely, by the most unusual presidency. As David Bowie might say, it is ti ...

Putin will eventually leave office, whether by death, illness, or—against all observable inclinations—stepping aside. But what happens then is unclear. It could be a rushed passing of the guard, a ...

And where Trump went wrong.

Beijing’s recent moves to resist extraterritoriality flow directly from a strategic, state-led project to improve China’s legal power. The United States led the construction of the postwar legal order ...

In May, China’s Ministry of Commerce took an unprecedented step: it ordered Chinese firms to disregard U.S. sanctions against five domestic refiners processing Iranian crude oil. Weeks later, China’s ...