Face-to-face talks over the weekend between U.S. and Iranian delegations in Islamabad ended without a peace agreement. Vice ...

This headline captures President Donald Trump and the Republicans’ midterm election problems in a nutshell: Inflation in ...

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The U.S. will survive, given the blessings of geography and technological and economic might. But hegemonic transitions are ...

For centuries, Kurds were a vital element of the neighboring Ottoman and Safavid empires. These two great Islamic, multiethnic states achieved stable bilateral relations in the 17th century following ...

How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World’s Last Developmental Frontier by Joe Studwell. Atlantic Monthly Press, 435 pages.

The war of choice in Iran could well end Trump’s presidency and remake the Western economic and political order.

For much of its modern history, Cuba was a de facto protectorate of the United States. After Cuba’s liberty from Spain was ...

President Donald Trump on Sunday attacked Pope Leo XIV on Truth Social, calling him "WEAK on Crime" and "terrible for Foreign Policy." “Leo sho ...

The German social philosopher Jürgen Habemas, who AI assures us is “one of the most significant thinkers of the 20th and 21st centuries,” died in Starnberg in southern Germany on March 14, 2026, at ...

In the months and years to come, thousands of articles and dozens of books will be written about Trump’s Iranian farce. It is ...

Listen to the Trump administration’s assessments of the war in Iran, and you could be forgiven for believing that Washington’s biggest adversary in the Middle East was at death’s door. When he’s not ...