The irony has not been lost on European policymakers. As U.S. President Donald Trump desperately casts about for a 51st state—Canada, Greenland, and Panama all said no this past year—the European ...

For years, the United States’ political dysfunction has been attributed to large-scale social and economic changes. Experts point to the failures of globalization, rising inequality, reduced social ...

By attacking Saudi shipping and Saudi Arabia itself, they have effectively opened a second front in the Iran war, broadening that conflict and placing further pressure on global energy and financial ...

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 ...

The United States has long viewed Russia as a power in terminal decline. This assessment formed in the 1980s as the Soviet Union began showing clear signs of imperial overstretch, and it congealed ...

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 ...

Al-Qaeda has ended. The organization that Osama bin Laden founded and led, that attacked the United States 25 years ago and killed 2,977 innocent Americans in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and ...

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 ...

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Western countries responded with aggressive economic restrictions, freezing Russia’s official foreign exchange reserves, placing export controls on critical ...

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 ...

Industrial policy is back in fashion in the United States. As fragile global supply chains and a weakened industrial base present growing economic and national security risks, policymakers in both ...