Emma Ashford: Hey, Matt. You just got back from the Munich Security Conference, right? I heard it was very exciting: Vice President J.D. Vance came in swinging, the Trump administration ...
Russia’s brutal, illegal war on Ukraine is lumbering into its fourth year, yet Europe still hasn’t used all its leverage against Moscow. Despite far-reaching cutbacks that have transformed global energy ...
There is vigorous movement afoot, in the weeks before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump graces the White House again, to seize the entirety of Russia’s frozen overseas assets and use that ...
For the past week, hundreds of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets in cities across the country, and the situation is escalating by the day. In the capital, ...
The surprise win of Calin Georgescu, an ultranationalist and admirer of Russia, in the first round of Romania’s presidential elections on Nov. 24 raises the once-unthinkable specter of an extended ...
After years of fruitless discussions and aborted plans in the European Union, one country—Italy—has recently begun to process irregular migrants’ asylum claims in a third country for the first time. ...
With only a few weeks left in office, U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration recently launched new export bans designed to hit China’s semiconductor industry. In return, Beijing announced restrictions on ...
Among the many countries targeted by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threats—a net that he recently widened to include all the BRICS countries if they so much as think of ...
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump claims to have ideas for quickly settling the Russia-Ukraine. Whether or not that’s true—and there’s plenty of reason to think it’s not—it’s likely the Trump administration ...
In July, the local government of the Italian region of Sardinia suspended the construction of hundreds of new wind turbines, claiming that it would destroy the island’s beautiful landscape. In ...