Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has blunted Washington’s most effective anticorruption tool, the Foreign ...

What Belarus’ democratic opposition reveals—and what it needs to win.

Belarus—nestled between the European Union, Ukraine, and Russia—has long been overlooked and underestimated by outsiders, who often see it as little more than an extension of Russia. This perception ...

After nearly 700 days of war, the death toll in Gaza has risen to extraordinary levels. Amid heavy bombardment that has ...

If AI could in this way help a state escape the prospect of mutual assured destruction, the technology would make that state ...

In 2023, Dan Kurtz-Phelan spoke with the historians Stephen Kotkin and Orville Schell about what drives Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin and how they are (and are not) ...

Rarely in modern history has a military offensive been as loudly and persistently foreshadowed as the June 2025 Israeli and ...

MICHAEL JOHNSTON is Charles A. Dana Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Colgate University. He is the author of ...