In the space of one week this month, China and the United States held two bilateral meetings of the kind that have been rare in recent years amid their escalating ...
Throughout the academic year that is now concluding on U.S. university campuses, there has been a contentious debate about the language used in protests over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One of ...
Authoritarian states’ traditional approach to conflict outside their borders is to choose sides—supplying political-diplomatic support and military muscle to their allies—or to freeze the conflict while keeping a hand in ...
Understanding other countries requires more than studying them from afar. This fundamental fact is hardly news. In the 18th and 19th centuries, young people conducted a grand tour of other ...
Today, President Joe Biden will host Kenyan President William Ruto. Ruto is the first African head of state to be honored with an official state visit in 15 years and ...
Six weeks after Li Wenliang blew the whistle in Wuhan on an emerging infectious disease in early 2020, cities around the world locked down and turned into hotspots. From Rome ...
A 13th county in Oregon passed a measure that would allow the county to move forward with efforts to secede from the state and join the Republican-governed state of Idaho. ...
Earlier this year, McKinsey executives found themselves in serious political trouble. The Financial Times reported that their China branch had boasted in 2019 of its economic advice to the Chinese ...
The United States and other major countries are close to finally finding a way to turn frozen Russian state assets into financial assistance for Ukraine, with this week’s G-7 meeting ...
In the run-up to President Lai Ching-te’s inauguration, the U.S. foreign-policy establishment busied itself debating whether and how the Lai administration might diverge from his predecessor’s finely calibrated cross-strait policies. ...