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President Donald Trump said the U.S. seized an Iranian cargo ship that tried to bypass its blockade, a move that escalates... Read More

At some point—whether sooner or later—major hostilities against Iran will come to an end. Read More

As the clock runs down on a two-week ceasefire agreed to by the US and Iran, the key question is whether they can reach a deal to end a war... Read More

The Iranian government ridiculed EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas’ calls to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and respect international... Read More

China is a central actor in the war with Iran, though it remains largely unnamed in Washington’s public debate.... Read More

I’ve long been an industrial policy enthusiast. My favorite popular nonfiction book is Joe Studwell’s How Asia... Read More

War against Iran. Kidnapping the president of Venezuela. Threatening to take over Cuba and Greenland. Plans to plunder the... Read More

We have written a great deal on the evolution of U.S.-China relations, and we expect them to evolve further after the upcoming summit between... Read More

In his new book Why Populists Are Winning: and How to Beat Them, British MP Liam Byrne argues that it’s time to go after the... Read More

Ireland’s crisis came as a bolt from the blue. On April 7, a protest by farmers and haulers over rising fuel prices quickly escalated... Read More

Vladimir Putin, 73, has been Russia’s leader for over a quarter of a century and the driving force behind Moscow’s efforts to... Read More

The defeat of Viktor Orban in Hungary last weekend was celebrated by many who saw the former president as establishing single-party... Read More

Venezuelan interim president Delcy Rodríguez and the ruling PSUV party have taken a series of modest but meaningful steps to... Read More

On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with... Read More

The sudden eruption of war in the Mideast Gulf has created dramatic new risks for global energy security. Read More

Iran’s military announced it has closed the Strait of Hormuz just a day after the country declared the waterway open, claiming the U.S.... Read More

It looks like Iran’s rulers have finally blinked — but that doesn’t mean they won’t try to weasel out of every... Read More

Perhaps the most important consequence of the Iran War — other than degrading the military capabilities of the Iranian regime and... Read More

President Donald Trump has warned China not to supply Iran with new air defense systems. His admonition is... Read More

The Trump administration’s decision to carry out a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has raised tensions in the Persian... Read More

After the failure of negotiations in Pakistan, the United States announced the start of a blockade of Iranian oil. Iran threatened to keep... Read More

U.S. State Department officials met in Havana with Cuban apparatchiks —including the grandson of aging strongman Raul... Read More

Moscow’s Manezh exhibition hall is playing host to a celebration of the life and politics of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the outspoken,... Read More

Brussels should set clear conditions for Hungary’s European comeback—and use its moment of leverage to incentivise a geopolitical... Read More

Sunday’s elections in Hungary made headlines far beyond its borders, as Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s... Read More

All wartime restrictions lifted for Israeli public; 10-day ceasefire appears to hold even as Lebanese media report Israeli strike on... Read More

I am a proud Jewish American. My father fled Poland in 1921 to escape poverty and antisemitism. Those in his family who stayed were murdered... Read More

Over the 250 years of its independence, America’s place in the world has changed dramatically. Having begun in the last... Read More

China’s new 15th Five-Year Plan is a high-level framework offering something for every policy field – and it triggers a... Read More

The outbreak of the conflict in Iran in March 2026 transformed Azerbaijan’s southern border into an active crisis-management zone,... Read More

US President Donald Trump pressured Israel to agree to a ceasefire in Lebanon after Lebanon’s president clarified to US... Read More

It has been nearly 80 years since the guns fell silent in World War II. In that long arc of peace, the United States helped rebuild a... Read More

Hungary’s Viktor Orbán was the first populist of the 21st century. The problems his country faced, he said, were immigration... Read More

Viktor Orbán, who has governed Hungary for the past 16 years, turning the small Central European country into an international model... Read More

Spain’s latest assisted suicide should sober the ardor of ‘right-to-die’ advocates everywhere.     Read More