In the late summer of 2015, when it seemed that the flow of refugees intoEuropemight never abate, GermanChancellor Angela Merkelheld a press conference. She’d just visited a refugee center near…

In the months after large-scale protests first broke out inHong Konglast June,U.S.policy circles remained relatively quiet. Yet as demonstrations turned violent and rumors of aBeijing-directed…

In the past couple of weeks, five Lebanese attempted to kill themselves because of the deteriorating economic conditions. One man in the city of Arsal hanged himself because he could not give his…

OnOctober 14, Spain’s Supreme Court sentenced several leaders of the Catalonian separatist movement to lengthy prison terms for their role in organizing a controversial independence referendum two…

A congressional impeachment inquiry seeks to determine whetherU.S.PresidentDonald Trumpextorted a foreign leader, withholding a covetedWhite Housemeeting andU.S.military aid in order to promulgate…

President Donald Trump and 28 other heads of state and government travelled to the UK this week to celebrate NATO’s 70th anniversary alongside Prime Minister Boris Johnson. But while leaders…

Donald Trump is not an internationalist. He engages with the world but dislikes international institutions. His speeches to the UN don’t extol the virtues of the organization, they emphasize his…

Jeanine Añez was the senate vice president and little-known even in her native Bolivia before longtime President Evo Morales resigned on 10 November 2019 when the Bolivianarmed forces, the…

For more than five years, Russian forces and their proxies have waged a bloody war against Ukrainian forces in the Donbas region of easternUkraine. The conflict has claimed more than 13,000 lives,…

Thirty years ago this month, the opening of the Berlin Wall ushered in the last great diplomatic struggle of the Cold War. As cheering crowds danced atop what was left of the Iron Curtain, the fate…