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Back to SearchXi Jinping’s World of Treachery and Sacrifice
Last week’s meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping may have brought a respite in the trade war. But it hardly touched the more fundamental drivers of U.S.-Chinese rivalry, a rivalry that has com…
Published on 8 hours ago
The Crack-Up of American Democracy
If one thing can be said to characterize the first months of Donald Trump’s second term, it is his expansive and often norm-breaking use of presidential power, both abroad and at home. There are the …
Published on 1 week ago
America’s Two-State Delusion
With a cease-fire in place in Gaza after two years of war, Donald Trump has proclaimed the arrival of peace in the Middle East. At the moment, however, it’s not even clear if the cease-fire itself wi…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Will the War in Gaza Really End?
The world has watched as a cease-fire has tentatively taken effect in Gaza. All the surviving Israeli hostages are home and many Palestinian prisoners and detainees have been released. Israeli forces…
Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago
The Reeducation of Russia’s Military
Ever since Russia started its war in Ukraine, assessments of its military power have vacillated wildly. First, Russian forces were supposed to overrun Ukraine and crush any resistance in a matter of …
Published on 4 weeks ago
Xi Jinping's Successor and the Future of China
When Xi Jinping took over the Chinese Communist Party in 2012, he began a new chapter in China’s history—one that would come to be defined above all by his grip on power. Xi overhauled not only the C…
Published on 1 month ago
Poland’s View From the Frontline of Europe
In early September, around 20 Russian drones entered Poland’s airspace. NATO and Polish forces scrambled fighter jets to shoot them down, but not before several had traveled hundreds of miles into Po…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Is America Ready for the Age of Cyber Warfare?
In 2024, the U.S. government discovered that Chinese hackers had penetrated a huge swath of the American telecommunications system—and remained there for years. That attack came to be known as Salt T…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
The World That Tariffs Will Make
Donald Trump has been railing against the global economic order from the start of his political career. But in his second term as president, he has turned that critique into blistering action. In jus…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Can Israel Save Itself?
It has been almost two years since Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel and the start of the war in Gaza. Those many months of combat have left Hamas severely weakened, with its leadership eviscerated…
Published on 2 months ago