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The United States and Iran could reach a framework for ⁠a ⁠deal if Washington separates "nuclear and non-nuclear issues", a senior... Read More

As his latest threats to Iran suggest, President Donald Trump has become increasingly comfortable deploying military force around the world. Read More

Behind the Chinese illusion of strength lies a Soviet-style system sustained by subsidy, suppression, and the ongoing exhaustion of its own... Read More

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party scored a historic win earlier this month, positioning her as a leader... Read More

Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, the notorious fentanyl supplier, founder and leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel,... Read More

The country’s slow-motion collapse can be reversed.   Read More

Under the highland light of Addis Ababa, the African Union met to discuss a fundamental and profound issue: water, sanitation, and human... Read More

US and Israeli strikes on Iran should actively degrade the regime’s ability to kill protesters—including by directly targeting... Read More

It seems natural to assume that relentless pressure will force authoritarian leaders to yield, yet the opposite is often true.  Read More

On February 17 and 18, trilateral talks between Ukraine, Russia, and the United States in Geneva ended without any breakthroughs.  Read More

As the war in Ukraine enters its fifth year since Russia’s large-scale invasion, six CFR experts offer concrete recommendations for... Read More

Four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Trump administration is pressing Kyiv to agree to painful territorial... Read More

The Trump administration has been rapidly expanding US forces in the Middle East, and is reportedly considering strikes in the... Read More

State of the Union addresses are usually sedate affairs, but the Supreme Court turned this year’s into must-see TV. The... Read More

The death of Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes decapitated the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación, one... Read More

Cuba’s government said it killed four of 10 passengers on a Florida-registered speedboat who had opened fire on its soldiers and were... Read More

Endless blackouts, empty shelves and crumbling streets - this is the grim reality faced by millions of Cubans as the once-prospering... Read More

A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future Read More

In early February, Matt Schumer, founder of OthersideAI and creator of the AI writing tool HyperWrite, published a 5,000-word essay titled... Read More

With US withholding $2.2 billion in arrears, UN peacekeeping faces troop withdrawals, mandate failures and emboldened war mongers   Read More

onservatism is distinguished from other modern political movements in that it is primarily defensive rather than progressive. The... Read More

The Winter Olympics had its thrills and spills — and a deep philosophical divide represented by two American, or American-born,... Read More

The post‑cold war international order is fading, and no clear successor has emerged.   Read More

With two U.S. carrier strike groups assembling in the Arabian Sea, the chances of an armed conflict with Iran are uncomfortably high,... Read More

Hamas’s inhuman October 7, 2023 attacks on Israeli civilians led to an Israeli recalibration and response.  For the first time in... Read More

President Donald Trump attacked Iran’s “sinister” nuclear ambitions as he laid out his case for deposing the regime of... Read More

The Iranian regime will “stick together like glue” and be nearly impossible to end, no matter whether the United States launches... Read More

Breaking a record he set previously, President Trump delivered the longest State of the Union address in history at a moment when Americans... Read More

I’d like to begin by issuing a disclaimer: I am neither a lawyer nor a constitutional scholar, but I would like to share some... Read More

X this week launched a landmark legal challenge against the €120 million fine it received in December under the Digital Services Act... Read More

President Donald Trump is laying waste to the United States’ long-standing system of alliances. By extorting old friends for short-term... Read More

Somewhere in the Donbas region, Ukrainian soldier Artem Bondarenko says he hasn’t slept through the night in months as he... Read More

At –40°F, cold is not a condition simply to be managed. It is a constraint that governs everything. Equipment fails, humans slow,... Read More

In London, there is a new Embassy of Palestine and the British Government recognises a Palestinian state. But where is that state... Read More

The presidents of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan attended the inaugural meeting of US President Donald Trump’s Board of... Read More

The blunderbuss British government of Keir Starmer, now wallowing in the upper teens in the polls, struggling to keep a paper-thin lead over... Read More

Nigel Farage’s insurgent Reform UK has now been dominating the British opinion polls since June 2025.  Quite an... Read More

Markets failed to celebrate Mexico’s assassination of its most notorious drug lord over the weekend. The iShares Mexico exchange-traded... Read More

In President Trump’s second term, his coercive diplomacy sends different signals to the Iranian regime and Tehran’s dictator. The... Read More

When Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro was abruptly removed from power in January, some Republicans touted it as a template for... Read More

Despite relentless attrition at appalling human cost, the Kremlin has not achieved its goals. Maximum economic pressure can undermine... Read More

China once underpinned Germany’s industrial growth but has now become a force behind its deindustrialization.   Read More

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit cements Israel’s shift from European reliance to a strategic, Asia-focused... Read More

On the morning the regime fell, Rashid Saad left his house before dawn and stepped onto the road outside Al-Rusafa, a village in Syria's... Read More

Smoke over Puerto Vallarta. Tractor-trailers burning across major highways. Read More