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A line of people including one person holding a large U.S. flag and smaller rainbow flag on a pole, some draped with rainbow flags, cross a crosswalk with the U.S. Capitol in the distance.
A line of people including one person holding a large U.S. flag and smaller rainbow flag on a pole, some draped with rainbow flags, cross a crosswalk with the U.S. Capitol in the distance.

How Progressives Are Unwittingly Aiding the Rise of Autocracy

Dictators get an unlikely boost from the left’s identity politics.

Factory workers inspect silver cylinders on an assembly line in California.
Factory workers inspect silver cylinders on an assembly line in California.

How World War II Changed the Global Economy

Industrial mobilization, high tax rates, and labor deals are part of the legacy. This article has an audio recording

Joseph Ny gestures with one hand as he speaks.
Joseph Ny gestures with one hand as he speaks.

Joseph Nye Was the Champion of a World That No Longer Exists

The distinguished scholar, who coined “soft power,” shaped five decades of U.S. foreign policy.

Indian security personnel patrol in the Pulwama district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir on May 7.
Indian security personnel patrol in the Pulwama district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir on May 7.

The Potential Off-ramps for India and Pakistan

The avenues exist, but you need leaders to take them. This article has an audio recording

Bessent leans into speak to Trump as they sit at a table with a presidential seal on the front of it and a U.S. flag behind them.
Bessent leans into speak to Trump as they sit at a table with a presidential seal on the front of it and a U.S. flag behind them.

Don’t Expect a Trade Deal in Geneva

China doesn’t know what the U.S. wants—and maybe the U.S. doesn’t either.

A soldier salutes from atop a tank with the buildings of Red Square around it in the background.
A soldier salutes from atop a tank with the buildings of Red Square around it in the background.

What a Trump Reset With Russia Could Look Like 

A U.S.-Russia alignment would finally let Putin declare victory over Europe.

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Both Xi and Trump Want the Other to Call Them First

A conflict over face is tangling up the trade war’s resolution.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk meets with cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on April 7, 2022.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk meets with cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on April 7, 2022.

DOGE Has Its Sights on the Defense Department

One of the worst cost-saving ideas is to close yet more military bases.

Benjamin Netanyahu sits on a gold-upholstered armchair in the Oval Office of the White House, wearing a dark suit and red tie. A fireplace mantle is visible behind him, crowded with gold vases and other sculptures.
Benjamin Netanyahu sits on a gold-upholstered armchair in the Oval Office of the White House, wearing a dark suit and red tie. A fireplace mantle is visible behind him, crowded with gold vases and other sculptures.

Why Netanyahu Might Be on a Collision Course With Trump

The prime minister is learning there’s no carveout for Israel in “America First.”

A former Russian special forces sergeant who now fights for Ukraine after living in the country for a decade with his Ukrainian wife, gestures to keep quiet as he moves along frontline tenches towards a Russian position around 150 metres away, on October 27, 2022 in Zaporizhzhia oblast, Ukraine.
A former Russian special forces sergeant who now fights for Ukraine after living in the country for a decade with his Ukrainian wife, gestures to keep quiet as he moves along frontline tenches towards a Russian position around 150 metres away, on October 27, 2022 in Zaporizhzhia oblast, Ukraine.

The Ukrainian Troops Who Will Never Stop Fighting

Behind enemy lines, Ukrainian agents are committed to tormenting their Russian occupiers—even if there's a ceasefire.

A group of children sit in a newly opened shelter in the Meyotte neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on April 12, after people were forced to flee from another area due to gang violence.
A group of children sit in a newly opened shelter in the Meyotte neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on April 12, after people were forced to flee from another area due to gang violence.

Trump Targets Haitian Gangs

U.S. authorities slapped a terrorist designation on two groups as Haiti’s crisis deepens.

A Jewish man looks at an election poster of the independent centrist French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron next to another of far-right Front National candidate Marine Le Pen at the French consulate in Jerusalem, on May 7, 2017.
A Jewish man looks at an election poster of the independent centrist French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron next to another of far-right Front National candidate Marine Le Pen at the French consulate in Jerusalem, on May 7, 2017.

Israel Is Ready to Embrace Europe’s Far Right

European populism’s long tradition of antisemitism isn’t disqualifying for the Israeli government.

A propaganda poster depicts Chairman Mao inside the open top of a jeep reaching out toward an adoring crowd who wave red flags and hold little red books.
A propaganda poster depicts Chairman Mao inside the open top of a jeep reaching out toward an adoring crowd who wave red flags and hold little red books.

Is America Facing a ‘Cultural Revolution’?

What to make of the comparisons between Trump and Chairman Mao.

U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with British ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson at the White House.
U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with British ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson at the White House.

Trump, Starmer Celebrate ‘Breakthrough’ U.S.-U.K. Trade Deal

This is the White House’s first major trade agreement since it issued sweeping reciprocal tariffs last month.

A man in camouflage and a beret raises his fist as he speaks into a microphone.
A man in camouflage and a beret raises his fist as he speaks into a microphone.

Can the U.S.-Houthi Cease-Fire Hold?

Trump’s announcement that he would end airstrikes on the militant group in Yemen came as a surprise, but the truce seems shaky at best.

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