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I just read Jordan Marsh’s op-ed (“Does ‘back the blue’ mean defending any police action?” Sept. 28). To answer his question: No. “Back...
After weeks of finger-pointing, rhetorical gamesmanship and intra-GOP high jinks, Congress managed to avoid a federal government shutdown over the...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s multiday trip to Washington, D.C., last week, during which he held meetings on Capitol Hill, the White...
As perverse as it may sound, state-sponsored assassinations overseas are nothing new in the dirty world of international relations. Israel has...
Whether it's managing an increasingly tense relationship with China or trying to sustain Western military support for Ukraine, the U.S. has its hands...
Every September, world leaders converge on United Nations headquarters in Manhattan for a series of meetings on topics ranging from socioeconomic...
Ukraine’s counteroffensive, soon to enter its fourth month, is at best making marginal gains along the 1,000-mile front line. Russia’s network of...
If you were to tell an American in 1973 that there would come a time when a future U.S. president was warmly greeted in Hanoi, he or she might have...
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the world’s chief nuclear watchdog, leaked snippets of its latest quarterly report about Iran’s nuclear...
Regarding the news story “Pritzker taps Madigan ally for state board” (Aug. 30): I would like to say that I was surprised to see a political...
Several weeks ago, I raised a question in my weekly column that the Biden administration’s Middle East shop is no doubt asking itself on a daily...
While reading the Aug. 23 editorial “When it comes to restaurants and tipping, Brandon Johnson’s allies should be careful what they wish for,” I...
It’s official: The death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader and financier of the Wagner mercenary group, was officially confirmed by Russian authorities...
There was good news and bad news for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over the weekend. The good news: Ukraine will finally be receiving the...
Nearly three weeks after the Nigerien presidential guard overthrew President Mohammed Bazoum, the political crisis in the Sahelian African state shows...
Negotiating with Iran is never easy or uncontroversial. But it’s often necessary to solve problems — or in one case last week, to free Americans...
Last weekend, Russia pounded Ukrainian positions in the Kharkiv region with a bevy of cruise missiles and one-way attack drones, killing at least four...
After skimming Japan’s new defense white paper, one gets the sense that Asia is on fire. The 30-page strategy is screaming with warnings about the...
For President Joe Biden, a normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia is the Holy Grail of diplomatic deals in the Middle East....
The Korean Peninsula has been a beehive of activity over the past two weeks — and I’m not just talking about the strange case of a U.S. soldier...
Just because Pretoria is over 7,000 miles away from the battlefields of Ukraine doesn’t mean the 17-month-long war hasn’t impacted South Africa....
Last week, the United Nations Security Council, a body typically riven by substantive disagreements among its permanent member states, managed to come...
The United Nations Security Council has generally been a feckless institution on the Syria file. The council’s ineptitude was exposed at the very...
President Joe Biden is on a multiday swing through Europe, a continent that continues to host its deadliest war in 80 years. After he wraps up his...
Last month, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited China in an attempt to partially smooth over the increasingly rocky relationship between...
The Supreme Court’s LBGTQ rights-related ruling raises some serious questions. To recap, Web Designer A offers web design services to the public....
The early stretch of the 2024 presidential campaign is underway — and with it a boatload of bad ideas and policy initiatives. One of the worst but...
The rebellion ended as quickly as it began. Less than a day after Wagner Group mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin led thousands of his men into Russia...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a bonafide rocket star during his trip to Washington, D.C., last week. There were 7,000 cheering supporters...
For the first time in five years, a U.S. secretary of state set foot on Chinese soil for an official visit. Antony Blinken, America’s top diplomat,...
Saudi Arabia has been on a diplomatic blitz this year, building bridges with traditional adversaries and bolstering ties with regional neighbors....
After months of speculation about when Ukraine’s long-anticipated counteroffensive will begin, we now have an answer: right now. Tens of thousands...
By now, we all know the terms of the debt ceiling and government spending bill President Joe Biden signed last weekend after an acrimonious weekslong...
You may not know it from watching cable news, going grocery shopping or doing any other mundane chore of daily life, but the world is at an increased...
Say what you want about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but the man keeps winning elections. Last weekend, the Turkish president bested his...
The only thing we can say for certain about ongoing budget talks between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is that neither man will...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled this week to Papua New Guinea, a Pacific island nation of roughly 10 million people, to sign a bundle of...
Bakhmut, the midsize Ukrainian city that used to have a population of 80,000, is now reportedly in Russian hands after a bloody nine-month military...
Nearly 21 months after the U.S. withdrawal from a two-decadelong misadventure in Afghanistan, an increasingly polarized Washington continues to ask...
One of the first jobs of a diplomat is not to make a situation worse. Sometimes picking fights is appropriate, and sometimes it can lead to...
For the last four weeks, the Sudanese capital of Khartoum has been a war zone. Its residents have been scrambling for the most basic items, just...
At a time when the Biden administration has its hands full trying to reverse Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and manage a U.S.-China relationship stuck...
Increasingly in Washington, the question is not whether China’s People’s Liberation Army will invade Taiwan — it’s when. Ask three different...
When Sudanese strongman Omar al-Bashir was removed from power in 2019 after a 30-year reign, a ray of hope emerged for the millions of people on the...
President Yoon Suk-yeol’s state visit to the United States, the first by a South Korean president in 12 years, was nothing short of a lovefest. But...
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg’s trip last week to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv was precisely what you would expect from the head of the...
The African nation of Sudan is no stranger to conflict. Since Sudan declared independence from the U.K. and Egypt in 1956, there have been too many...
For President Joe Biden, preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon is a core national security objective. Biden administration officials across...
Syrian dictator Bashar Assad used to be an international outcast, Syria’s equivalent of Kim Jong Un. The Syrian dictator had few partners and even...
Being an international diplomat can be a thankless, unenviable task. It’s not all fancy attire, speechmaking and cocktail receptions with the...