For millions of people, the images seemed to herald the arrival of a new age. To understand why those images mattered, it is necessary to remember how threatening Iraq seemed before the war began.

By most accounts, China has the upper hand in its growing economic confrontation with the United States. In April 2025, after Washington levied heavy tariffs on China, Beijing res ...

A. WESS MITCHELL is Principal and Co-Founder of the Marathon Initiative. He served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia from 2017 to 2019 and is the author of The Grand Strategy ...

China’s domestic economic slowdown is the primary driver of its export strength, because weak domestic demand in China means that excess production is exported at lower prices. Even using Beijing’s ...

Since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to office, no state has been too small to find itself in his crosshairs. In his inaugural address in January 2025, Trump pledged to take back the Panama ...

Despite some allegations that Anthropic’s warnings about Mythos simply constituted marketing, leading commercial software companies given early access to the model have corroborated Anthropic’s claim.

The memorandum of understanding that the United States and Iran signed in June has fallen apart. The deal was meant to halt fighting, open the Strait of Hormuz, and create a 60-day window for further ...

When hostile central governments threaten cities directly, municipal leaders can contest the worst overreaches. Mayors can use municipal resources to restrict or defy the predatory actions of a ...

Beijing’s wait-and-see approach to the war and unwillingness to use its leverage over Tehran to contain the conflict have disabused Gulf Arab states of any lingering expectation that China could ...

Although the Iranian people and armed forces have defended their country against two nuclear-armed powers, they still see the conflict as one imposed on them, a clash that they were never eager to ...

DARON ACEMOGLU is Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1993. One of the world’s most frequently cited economists, he was awarded the Nobel Prize ...

At no point during its history did Pakistan meet these criteria. It was a nuclear-armed country on the fringes of the Western order, associated more often with regional instability than with conflict ...