After the Iranian regime was weakened by U.S.-Israeli strikes in June 2025 and by mass protests in January 2026, many Israeli leaders concluded that a deeper political transformation in Tehran was ...

In this perspective, it is nothing like the feared Axis powers during World War II because it lacks any formal commitments or aggressive public rhetoric. The U.S. intelligence community even makes a ...

And as global temperatures continue to climb, its role will become harder to ignore—because the two countries, the world’s largest emitters of carbon dioxide, both face great risks from ...

Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that Europe has become the president’s favorite punching bag. The continent is, his administration believes, militarily emaciated, economically irrelevant, ...

In 2011, the United States conducted the first drone strike on the continent, targeting senior leaders of the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab. At the time, Washington held a near monopoly in drone ...

When British Prime Minister Keir Starmer led the Labour Party to a landslide victory in July 2024, he hailed the result as the end of 14 years of misrule by the Conservative Party and the beginning of ...

A true cold peace requires a regional order sustained by deterrence, diplomacy, and bilateral and multilateral allied cooperation. U.S. policy seeking to denuclearize North Korea has failed because it ...

Yet her concern about the dangers of renewed German military hegemony in Europe is overblown. Germany’s democratic parties remain committed to Europe and to Western alliances, and they agree that the ...

In the United States, internal divisions, political dissatisfaction, and institutional dysfunction have become so severe over the past year that the country is backsliding “much faster” than “any ...

For decades, American allies in Asia and Europe have relied on U.S. extended nuclear deterrence for their safety. They forswore acquiring their own nuclear weapons, agreeing instead to live under the ...

Beijing’s self-inflicted identity crisis.

In this sense, China has been practicing what might be called a “China first” strategy—prioritizing its narrow interests while disclaiming global responsibilities—long predating the current “America ...