The war in Syria was supposed to be over. Over, of course, didn’t mean peace: During the past few months, the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad...
China has significantly picked up the pace of expanding its nuclear arsenal in recent years, a development that increases the likelihood a new arms race will...
Next month’s U.S. presidential election is being closely watched across the world. But do foreign governments have a clear preference for either Vice President Kamala Harris...
In his 1924 novel The Magic Mountain, the German writer Thomas Mann used an idyllic alpine sanatorium as a metaphor for the torpor and self-delusion of...
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine more than two years ago, US and Western military assistance to the country has followed a pattern. First,...