The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a stunning indictment of the state of global health security. The epidemic should have been containable; few threats are as familiar to ...

Attrition is the defining feature of today’s conflicts. The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have become grinding contests over which side can exhaust the other’s military capacity, economic ...

The war in Ukraine is causing undeniable harm across Russia. Ukraine’s deep strikes into Russian territory have added to the war’s civilian death toll; disrupted online commerce, a significant sector ...

It is all that remains of the Superior Institute of Industrial Design—a stately building that in its 166 years housed a Spanish officers’ club, U.S. occupation forces after 1898, Cuba’s health ...

In Washington, many observers see these purges as evidence of China’s weakness. They see a powerful leader consumed by suspicion and obsessed with maintaining his own grip on power. If the party’s ...

As Russia’s war in Ukraine becomes increasingly costly with no end in sight, the Kremlin has kept tightening its grip over Russian society. Along with expanding repression, including of some officials ...

The United States’ epic twentieth-century successes in diplomacy set dangerously high expectations. Germany and Japan surrendered unconditionally in 1945; U.S. President Harry Truman created NATO in ...

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 ...

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The United States appears ready to pull much of its military from Europe. The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy, a key policy document, declared that it was time for the continent ...

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 ...