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Anthropic’s latest AI model has kick-started a new debate. 

The consequences will be felt long after the fighting ends.

Rather than climate, disease, or artificial intelligence, the next secretary-general should stay focused on conflict resolution.

President Trump could come to represent the restrained, reasonable wing of the GOP.

The conflict is wreaking havoc on an obscure sector that is more important than you’d think.

Why exports of illegally sourced gold are gaining on drugs in funding the continent’s illicit economy.

Trump’s party is still providing cover on unauthorized war despite growing signs of misgivings.

In the war’s aftermath, key details about the regime remain opaque. 

Kyiv is struggling with skepticism of conscription fueled by Russian propaganda.

With the rift over Greenland, the intergovernmental body finds itself in troubled waters again.

Beijing is less focused on acquiring sovereign control, more so in assuring its own strategic security.

Stephen M. Walt’s prescription for anxious countries.

The U.S. president’s half-baked approach to dealmaking may be a recipe for more war.

Fighting on multiple fronts has taxed its military, economy, and ties with the United States.

AI has a place in military targeting—but it needs safeguards.

From Jordan to Nepal, solutions to urban water woes are leaving the countryside angry and parched.

How to rewrite the global economic framework for a progressive multilateralism.

The regime survived, but this doesn’t make it as strong as it thinks.

Madrid is preparing for one of the most ambitious regularization schemes in European history.

Rich countries must understand foreign aid can actually be popular—if people see the results.

While mostly used for logistics, Ukraine is increasingly using them for combat operations.

If warfighters don’t trust the technology, they won’t use it.

The opposition’s stunning victory offers lessons for U.S. Democrats—and a warning for Trump’s allies.

Witkoff and Kushner are merely the tip of the iceberg.

The U.S. war with Iran has shattered their economic model.

Even with a cease-fire deal in place, vital energy and fertilizer flows remain trapped.

As Islamabad hosts peace talks, it’s also balancing a security pact with Riyadh.

Why personality now trumps policy in global politics.

The United States lost the EV race to China. Food could be next.

Trump has decimated the norms of diplomatic communication, and other countries have followed suit.

John Bolton explains why he wishes Trump finished the job.

In the Iran war and beyond, Madrid has often done a better job looking out for U.S. interests than Washington.

Government paralysis is freezing budgets and wrecking public trust.

Recent scholarship shows the promise—and limits—of a historical path not taken.

The official appointment of coup leader Min Aung Hlaing as president is likely to hasten a shift within the bloc.

Shipping companies are reacting with caution as Hormuz cease-fire terms remain uncertain.

Erratic militarism combined with increased defense spending would only bring long-term decay.

Brett McGurk advised four presidents on a contested region—but to what end?

Countries are lining up for military deals with Kyiv.

The Iran war has disrupted a different, more fragile global energy system.

Iran discovered his Achilles’ heel—a market slump.

Even if the cease-fire holds, it will take months to undo the damage.

China sees the potential for conflict as a tragedy, not an opportunity.

The fragile truce faces significant obstacles.

Militias aligned with Tehran are embedded in some of the country’s most powerful networks.

The U.S. defense secretary is using the military to promote Christian nationalism, experts say.

The U.S. president has a history of following other world leaders—or his gut—instead of his own intelligence officers and experts.

Baghdad doesn’t control much of its own territory.

Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is a reminder of how everything is fair game in an era of great-power competition.

The destruction of infrastructure is killing ordinary people.

Some states want escalation; others are pushing for restraint.

Violent language has become a consistent and completely counterproductive part of Donald Trump’s foreign policy.

Certain outcomes to the U.S. war in Iran now seem more likely than ever.

Former FM’s terms for ending the war leave out the states that absorbed the most damage.

An undercover journalist travels the Volga to catch a glimpse of life under Putin.

The Iran war is torching the products that make the world go around.

As Islamabad positions itself as a mediator in the Iran war, New Delhi is sidelined.

Western tariffs accelerated its transformation into a sophisticated extension of China’s industrial policy.

U.S. operations in Iran risk draining limited U.S. stocks.

The Iran war has punctured—though not completely popped—the region’s tech bubble.

Blocked fertilizer shipments plus La Niña spell trouble for farmers around the world.

A renewed occupation could play to the guerrilla group’s strengths.

Nuclear history shows the importance of keeping skeptics in the room when thinking about safety.

For Iranians under fire, surges of patriotism and criticism of the government.

Iran’s new leaders are more radical and less risk-averse than their predecessors.

Hackers linked to the regime are escalating attacks against the United States and Israel as the war rages.

A vexing geography offers no clean entry point.

Jihadism’s global hub is shifting, and its reach expanding.

Its northern Kurdistan Region is being hit by both sides.

Iran’s Yemeni proxy group could make a bad energy market catastrophic if it targets the Red Sea.

Migrants are seeing flights and jobs vanish.

One month in, the Islamic Republic is winning merely by surviving.

Don’t overthink it. The Iran war is bad for Russia.

Escalation is already shattering Washington’s illusion of control.

An American myth reemerges for the Iran war.

By choosing escalation in Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson’s plan to fund both guns and butter unraveled.

Indigenous knowledge is helping conservationists manage delicate ecologies.

What lesson about national solidarity will Erdogan draw from Israel and Iran?

War setbacks, protests, and internet shutdowns expose the limits of Kremlin control.

President Sadyr Japarov has stifled opposition. Now he’s going after his former right-hand man.

Lawmakers have concerns about cost, possible ground troops, and unclear objectives.

Jason Bordoff on the winners and losers from conflict in the Middle East.

A much-ballyhooed idea is almost—but not quite—dead.

Some ships are getting through: those that pay, and those that play.

A new party takes office with a mandate—and high expectations from the Gen Z movement that propelled it to power.

What a previous intervention reveals about the hard choices that U.S. President Donald Trump faces.

The Islamic Republic claims to be thinking in terms of centuries, but its actions suggest otherwise.

Here’s what the rest of the world can do about it.

Which of the country’s dueling leaders is in favor with Trump is beside the point.

Ukraine has much to teach the United States about drone defense.

Few Mideast scholars saw regime change or democracy as possible outcomes.

No country is immune to the threat of drone warfare, experts warn.

Such a view both overstates and understates the scope of Beijing’s ambitions.

While the world focuses on the Iran war, Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank are acutely vulnerable.

Mohammad Ghalibaf’s long rise was fueled by populist imagery, real estate corruption, and ruthlessness.

Like Helsinki during the Cold War, Ottawa today is threatened by a bellicose and powerful neighbor.

Faced with another energy crisis, the continent is reaching for a form it had largely abandoned.

Countries that host U.S. forces want to be partners, not just platforms.

Prices won’t just be higher at the pump.

What happens when the house of cards collapses?