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President Trump is an America Firster, but he has an undeniable affinity for the Arab world. He would have made a good sheikh – he... Read More

It’s the usual script—create a crisis, then back off and claim victory. Read More

President Trump is focusing U.S. grand strategy around the world’s five major waterways and maritime chokepoints.   Read More

The line between persuading Tehran to denuclearize and provoking it toward rapid weaponization is dangerously thin.   Read More

Intransigent Hamas, defiant Iran and hostile Houthis are cramping the US president's style. Guess who may pay the price. Read More

I wouldn’t say that the Russians are uninterested in bringing this thing to a resolution,” Vice President J.D. Vance said at the... Read More

Although Iran and the United States remain far apart on major questions regarding the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, a new round of... Read More

President Trump praised Saudi Arabia for modernizing the Arabian Peninsula during a speech Tuesday to the US-Saudi Investment Forum in... Read More

President Donald Trump may have backed off, for now, from the sweeping tariffs he proposed placing on almost every country in the world. But... Read More

The Qatar-based Al Jazeera Media Institute recently hosted a webinar for journalists about detecting media bias to coincide with... Read More

Russia’s economic hold over Central Asia is slipping and it is relinquishing its position as regional security guarantor. Throwing its... Read More

Giorgia Meloni needs to make Italy’s geopolitical role in Europe more definitive. Rome should welcome cross-border collaboration and... Read More

In the span of his infant papacy, Robert Prevost hasn’t had time to make many decisions besides what to say from the balcony of St.... Read More

Does Pope Leo XIV subscribe to the tenets of the economic agenda of patriotic populism?   Read More

Like the weather, everyone complains about Pentagon spending and mismanagement, but no one does anything about it. Leaders of the... Read More

On May 1, Ukraine and the United States signed a long-anticipated minerals deal providing the United States with preferential... Read More

The China–US relationship is widely regarded as the defining geopolitical issue of the 21st century. But relations between China and... Read More

A deal can be structured that would address the needs of the various parties of the Middle East and therefore create long-term... Read More

President Trump’s upcoming Middle East trip, his first foreign tour since returning to the White House, is more than diplomatic... Read More

President Trump will be traveling to the Middle East at a time of great progress, given the terrible defeat Iran has suffered over the past... Read More

President Trump’s two-day visit to Saudi Arabia is expected to focus on bilateral deals, including a Saudi pledge to invest $600... Read More

Mat Whatley is a former U.K. army officer, who was head of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Donetsk, Ukraine, and a senior manager with... Read More

China has wrapped up a pretty good trade deal. The UK has managed to agree to lift some of the US tariffs. With President Trump touring the... Read More

Trump didn’t wait for approval from Ivy League economists to act on what should be common sense: You don’t compete with... Read More

As the US descends into chaos, China is pitching itself as the steadier player on the global stage. But Europe should be wary of its... Read More

That happened last Friday. And it was no mere ceremony: it was a gauntlet thrown down at the West’s feet.   Read More

If there’s anything that animates and activates the art-of-the-deal president, it’s being perceived as a negotiation... Read More

China’s 2024 Joint Sword exercises, and more recent Strait Thunder-2025A exercise, awakened the public psyche to the reality... Read More

April 30, 2025 marked the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and America’s ultimate defeat in the Vietnam War.  Read More

Ancient oak trees rise above gigantic boulders scattered across a high desert mesa in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest. This is Oak... Read More

Staying late in the shop that night cost Jean-Claude Amani his leg – but it may have saved his life. Then again, had he closed up a... Read More

As global headlines celebrate the election of Pope Leo XIV—Robert Francis Prevost—as the first American pope, another nation... Read More

As President Donald Trump sets out for the Middle East in the first international trip of his second administration, signs of... Read More

When a US citizen, just 19, was taken captive by a fascist militia, what did America’s progressives do? They cosplayed as his captors.... Read More

Facing steep US tariffs and rising Chinese assertiveness, Hanoi has responded with a careful balancing... Read More

Markets rejoiced as the US and China reached a temporary truce of sorts in their trade war Monday, sharply reducing tariffs in a... Read More

This tariff threat has at least succeeded in bringing other nations to the negotiating table—and now, the best way to restore calm is... Read More

The PM’s plan to cut immigration rings even more hollow than those of his predecessors. Read More

William Hague once described the Conservatives as an absolute monarchy, moderated by regicide. In his memoirs, David Cameron went further,... Read More