May 7, 2026 | If the United States continues to treat the global commons as a zero-sum battlefield, it may find that it has not cornered its rival but has instead isolated itself from the very infrastructure of the modern world.
April 30, 2026 | The Vatican has stepped into a vacuum of moral authority.
April 24, 2026 | Xi Jinping is betting that in a world weary of chaos, the power that brings equipment, credit, and continuity will ultimately prevail.
April 16, 2026 | Peace is not impossible, but the old ways of achieving it are increasingly obsolete.
April 9, 2026 | The Pakistan-brokered ceasefire in the Iran war signals a shift in the center of the diplomatic world.
April 2, 2026 | Wars and tariffs are combining to administer a one-two punch to U.S. global position.
March 24, 2026 | Welcome to a new, transactional era of American foreign policy where history is not a set of lessons to be learned but a rhetorical cudgel to be used against friends.
March 20, 2026 | Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.
March 12, 2026 | The global economy is being shaken up in unanticipated ways.
March 3, 2026 | The silence in Tehran today is not the silence of a collapsed state but the quiet preparation for a long and expensive retaliation.