Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Japan’s first female prime minister, U.S. efforts to bolster the Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal, and new proposals to end the Russia-Ukraine war. ...
Takaichi Sanae narrowly won the race for leadership of Japan’s right-wing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Saturday, positioning her to become the first female prime minister in Japan’s history. Japan ...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the looming collapse of the French government, a terrorist attack in Jerusalem, and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s surprise resignation. What ...
France finds itself yet again mired in a political crisis. Prime Minister François Bayrou, unable to secure a majority of votes in the National Assembly in favor of his proposed ...
It was a sunny mid-morning in South Kashmir, the kind of heat that slows everything down. Beneath the wide shade of a chinar tree, a group of young boys had ...
Scholars, pundits, and politicians make bad predictions all the time, and some of the mistakes are real doozies. For what it’s worth, my nominee for the worst geopolitical forecast of ...
This is an odd moment for the Trump administration and its MAGA supporters. I’m not talking about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, which has led at least a few members of ...
In a new book published this month in the Netherlands, Bas Erlings, a former strategic advisor for the center-right liberal People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), argues categorically against ...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the collapse of the Dutch government, an early presidential election in South Korea, and Gaza’s deadly aid crisis. Triggering New Elections ...
On May 4, in the first round of Romania’s presidential elections, far-right candidate George Simion amassed a stunning, but not surprising, 41 percent of the vote, nearly twice as much ...
