Trump intends to bring about the collapse of the liberal international order, in its commitment to open societies and its institutions. Read More

The continent is ossifying into irrelevance. Read More

Once, the United States claimed egalitarianism as a central ideal. What happened? Read More

The U.S. tariffs on 818 items average 25 percent. The items are largely machinery and equipment, which as categories constitute the... Read More

The news that Hungary's prime minister will visit Israel next week has sparked outrage from liberal Jews both in Israel and abroad. Opponents... Read More

Babies in cages were no ‘mistake' by Trump but test-marketing for barbarism Read More

Usually it starts at McDonald's. When protestors gather in central London they like to vandalise the burger chain's Whitehall branch in... Read More

Gold! Gold! Gold! What is it about this precious metal that causes such a rush among human beings? Throughout history, the discovery of gold... Read More

President Trump wants to teach China a lesson. Unfortunately, the lesson that China learns may be the exact opposite of the one Trump thinks... Read More

Presidential talk therapy with Russia is a good thing if Trump doesn’t let Putin take him to the cleaners. But there's no guarantee... Read More

As a rule, I don't get worked up over oil refineries. But the one gradually taking form on 2,500 hectares of swampland outside Lagos,... Read More

“I'm just now back from the across the Golan border. Even more civilians are pouring in—they know their protectors will not... Read More

When Thelma Aldana finished her term as Guatemala's Attorney General last May, she left office as the most popular public official in the... Read More

Pakistan's general election is set for July 25, and the battle lines are clear. Three parties are contending for the national... Read More

The compromise — after Trump said he wants to change, not affirm, the rules — was to speak of “a rules-based order,”... Read More

It wasn't just military strength that won the Cold War. Read More

The United States is being inundated by asylum seekers. Europe is being flooded by refugees. An exodus from poor countries is overwhelming... Read More

On July 16, Djamel Beghal is expected to be released from the Rennes-Vezin prison in the west of France. Beghal is a well-known figure in the... Read More

More than four years after Thailand's military seized power in a coup—the 19th coup or coup attempt since the end of absolute monarchy... Read More

A doctrine is how a president is forced to operate foreign policy in the reality in which he finds himself. Sometimes, presidents proclaim... Read More

Trump may be exchanging long-term stability for short-term gain.   Read More

The United States and Russia are competing for India's favor – and its energy market. Read More

DONALD Trump today accuses the PM of wrecking Brexit — and warns she may have killed off any chance of a vital US trade deal. The US... Read More

UK rolls out red carpet, US president says Boris Johnson would ‘make a great prime minister.' Read More

Trump's suggestion that Germany imports between 60 and 70 per cent of its energy requirements from Russia is bang on. Such a high degree of... Read More

We must show Beijing that it isn't just the U.S. that respects the island's democracy. Read More

The four ships assigned to FDNF-E primarily are supposed to fulfill ballistic-missile defense (BMD) requirements as part of Operation... Read More

Paul Joseph Watson, Count Dankula and Sargon of Akkad have joined Ukip. Let that sink in. This is an in-joke which you'll only appreciate if... Read More

Under this president, the ‘special relationship' isn't so special anymore. Read More

Russian influence-mongers appear to have created a number of fake local news Twitter accounts — and spent years posting real headlines. Read More

Post-1945, post-1968, and post-1989 Europe are all different — and none of them make sense anymore. Read More

The transatlantic alliance has seen worse. Read More

On the heels of my misguided intuition, expressed on another site last week, that Judge Amy Coney Barrett was the president's most likely... Read More

The next move is Trump's to play. Read More

The European chemicals giant has form in smoothing relations between powerful trading partners.  Read More

The Middle East conflict has arrived in Germany in the form of boycotts against German cultural festivals. The development raises the... Read More

When Italy's interior minister, Matteo Salvini, refused to let the rescue ship Aquarius – which was carrying 629 men, women, and... Read More

When oil prices started their collapse in 2014, plummeting from well above $100 a barrel to just over $29 by early 2016, the market drama... Read More

Despite officially welcoming Ethiopia's peace efforts, the Eritrean regime is keeping its people in the dark. Read More

by James M. Dorsey Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Salman could well dash expectations that he is gunning for a break with Sunni Muslim... Read More

Prophecies that the Western defense alliance NATO would become obsolete after the disintegration of the Soviet Union have already been proven... Read More

I sat on our sofa in Zagreb with my son, now the same age as I was back in 1990, to watch Croatia play Argentina in our second match in the... Read More

This year alone, Poundworld, Toys “R” Us and Maplin have gone bust, while Carpetright, New Look and Mothercare are trying to... Read More

Only an effective charter of governance can help us. Read More

Now you see it... Read More

Though US President Donald Trump is already claiming his share of headlines at the NATO summit, much of the world is waiting to get a look at... Read More

Like it or not – and much of the world doesn't – Donald Trump is now getting into his stride. At home, he has the chance to... Read More

The gunmen wore black military fatigues and ninja masks when they arrived in Seropédica, a nondescript town of 84,000 near Rio de... Read More

More than a hundred parties are taking part in 2018 elections, but real contest is amongst the three main political parties: Pakistan Muslim... Read More

The Trump administration amped up its trade fight with China on Tuesday when it threatened to impose tariffs on an additional $200 billion in... Read More

Cambodian military officers, gendarmes, and police officers are actively campaigning for the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP), in... Read More

Lately, Nigerian political parties are a lot like Lagos' iconic yellow danfo minibuses—swerving erratically, bulging as too many riders... Read More

The new head of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Jim Bridenstine, arrived in Israel on Thursday for his first visit to... Read More