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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the past year, the world’s attention has turned to economic chokepoints—with good reason. Iran has exercised its control over the Strait of Hormuz to gum up the global economy, and China has used ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For years, the United States’ political dysfunction has been attributed to large-scale social and economic changes. Experts point to the failures of globalization, rising inequality, reduced social ...