At a moment when global progress on human rights often seems to be faltering, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has taken a long-overdue step forward. Last month, the ICC issued...

Early in 1960, when James Baldwin visited Tallahassee, Florida, to report on a sit-in for civil rights by young African Americans, he wondered why they had not been cowed and...

In December 1899, John Barrett, a former minister to Siam (today Thailand) who had spent months accompanying the U.S. Navy squadron that defeated the Spanish fleet in the Philippines, wrote...

Remember the COVID-19-era shortages? Store shelves were stripped of toilet paper. Face masks were rationed. A global scarcity of semiconductors forced automakers and others to curtail production. Ford stashed unfinished Super...

The Trump administration’s tariffs have already raised some $152 billion this year—and that amount is set to rise, as a more comprehensive round of tariffs went into effect this week....

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the United States mediating an Armenia-Azerbaijan peace declaration, Russian territorial demands to end the war in Ukraine, and Germany’s growing criticism...

The annual ceremonies in Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and Nagasaki on Aug. 9 are somber yet chilling events. But on the 80th anniversaries of history’s only atomic bombings, Japan’s peace...

The humanitarian situation in Gaza has been dire throughout Israel’s 22-month war against Hamas, but the crisis has reached new heights in recent months amid ongoing Israeli restrictions on aid....

If there is one thing that both political parties can agree on, it’s that traditional U.S. foreign policy lies in ruins—or, at least, the idea of America-as-globocop that prevailed in...

On Friday, Germany responded to news that Israel intended to take control of Gaza City by announcing it would halt the export of any military equipment that could be used...