In nearly 50 conflict zones around the world, some one and a half billion people live under the threat of violence. In many of these places, the primary enforcers of order are not police officers or…

By Yan Xuetong In earlyOctober 2018,U.S.Vice PresidentMike Pencedelivered a searing speech at aWashingtonthink tank, enumerating a long list of reproaches againstChina. From territorial disputes…

JANUARY With signs pointing to the civil war in Syria entering its final stages and Russian President Vladimir Putin declaring victory over ISIS there in December 2017, we took a look at the…

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“Omnishambles”—that wonderful British neologism first coined in theBBCpolitical satire The Thick of It—is the best way to describe the current British political situation. Pretty much all British…

OnTuesday, December 11, just before8 PM, a lone attacker, Cherif Chekatt, armed with a handgun and a knife, killed five people and injured a dozen others who were visiting the famous Christmas market…

The Iranian government over the past week has suffered new losses in the court of international public opinion, ranging from legal action arising from its crude exports to Latin America to…

Almost 2,000 journalists descended onHamburglast week to witness a spectacle not seen since 1971: an open competition for the leadership of Germany’s most successful political party. The 1,001…

A few days after Israel launched an open-ended operation “Northern Shield” to expose and thwart tunnels built by Hezbollah aimed at infiltrating Israel, The United Nations Security Council decided to…