The Pentagon may be burned by the war on terror, but it’s obsessively preparing for a high-intensity conflict with China or Russia.

The Pentagon may be burned by the war on terror, but it’s obsessively preparing for a high-intensity conflict with China or Russia.
Democracy faces a global crisis. And this crisis couldn’t be coming at a worse time.
For Donald Trump, tariffs are a substitute for diplomacy, just as harassment in his personal life is a substitute for normal human interaction
A new Council on Foreign Relations report presents China in a distorted light.
U.S. military aid to the Philippines doesn’t defend the country from invaders. It’s turned inward, against the poor, journalists, and human rights defenders.
Two speeches and two very different approaches to the world.
The Modi government’s far-right bigotry is well-known, but its equally disturbing environmental record isn’t.
At a time of declining faith in democracy, the institution of royalty is looking surprisingly resilient.
The group’s caliphate may be crumbled, but the political conditions that gave rise to it haven’t improved at all.
Bolton’s broadsides against Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela hint at ambitions for much more dangerous geopolitical conflict — and nothing short of a new Cold War.