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 ...

As Russia’s war in Ukraine becomes increasingly costly with no end in sight, the Kremlin has kept tightening its grip over Russian society. Along with expanding repression, including of some officials ...

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 ...

Europe itself, he said, needed to “take ownership of conventional security on the continent.” Last month, to turn this vision into reality, the Pentagon launched its Europe Posture Review, which is ...

The United States, Russia, and China may not yet be in an arms race, but they are gearing up for one. Washington is building a new intercontinental ballistic missile, strategic bomber, and ballistic ...

In late October 2025, the automaker Honda had to indefinitely shutter a Mexican plant that manufactures its SUVs, thanks to an unanticipated shortage of parts. More than 2,000 miles away, in Canada, ...

The trade imbalances that have come to characterize the global economy are fundamentally untenable. China, Germany, and a handful of other economies run large, persistent trade surpluses, while the ...

In early April, a convoy of 299 Iraqi fuel tankers crossed into Syria on its way to the Mediterranean port of Baniyas, one of the few remaining paths to international markets amid the closure of the ...

How many nuclear weapons is enough? The question has haunted policymakers and scholars for 80 years. Early in the Cold War, the United States expanded its nuclear arsenal rapidly in response to the ...