Among U.S. President Donald Trump’s first actions after returning to office in January 2025 was imposing new tariffs on Canada, China, and Mexico, which he accused of sending fentanyl to the United ...

This episode joins a long list of embargoes, oil-price shocks, nationalization waves, and resource wars that have made petroleum the textbook case of commodity-driven instability. Yet the kinds of ...

Suddenly, nearly all planes and ships entering or leaving Taiwan must first stop at a mainland port in Fujian Province before traveling to their final destination. Beijing has seized control of most ...

President Donald Trump, who distrusted the transatlantic relationship in his first term, has tried to refashion it in his second. He has exerted extreme pressure on European countries, most ...

But after the Israeli and U.S. militaries launched a war on the Islamic Republic at the end of the month, eliminating Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other key regime figures, the Islamic ...

Whatever happens with the regime in one form or another, it’s incidental to the president’s primary objective here, which is to make sure the Iranian terrorist regime does not build a nuclear bomb.” ...

But almost as quickly as they arrived on the scene, Russia’s oligarchs soon became political targets themselves. In the first decade of this century, with the tumult of the prior decade receding, ...

Over the past half century, the British army has been extraordinarily busy. During the Cold War, it was deployed in West Germany, Northern Ireland, and, in response to an Argentine invasion in 1982, ...

Today, Turkey and Iran mistrust each other deeply and have backed opposing camps in wars and political disputes in Iraq, Syria, and the South Caucasus. Yet unlike some of the Unit ...

In recent years, after all, China has escalated its campaign of coercion against the island democracy, lobbing missiles over it, staging a blockade during live-fire military exercises, and threatening ...

Rebuilding Gaza is one of the greatest city-making tasks in modern history—perhaps all history. Roughly 60 million tons of rubble bestrews an area as large as a midsize American city. Haaretz reported ...

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has presented Russia and China with a significant opportunity. Both Moscow and Beijing see the conflict as a chance to undermine U.S. interests in the Middle East and ...