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Gideon RachmanFinancial Review |
The majority of G7 governments are now so burdened with domestic political problems that they are incapable of steering their own countries, writes...
Donald Trump is likely to try to destroy the International Criminal Court over the pursuit for Israel’s leaders, but this is not in anybody’s...
The president-elect is threatening to gut the institutions that make America great, which can only benefit Russia and China.
Beneath the slogans and insults, the Trump and Harris camps have fundamentally different views of how to prevent the world from sliding into conflict.
The former president’s stress on power and indifference to democracy and human rights worries the EU. But it makes him the preferred partner of...
Military intervention from Israel or the United States is unlikely to bring about the fall of the Islamic republic.
The former president claims the world was at peace during his mandate, that the “weakness” of the Biden administration has led to wars in Europe...
With its decapitation of Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Israeli government hopes that it has finally seized the initiative in the battle with its regional...
The Democratic candidate badly needs a breakthrough in this week’s televised debate to restore momentum to her campaign.
His influence is showing up from Ukraine to China, angering the United States, although he still lacks the ability to make the law.
Volodymyr Zelensky is prepared to ignore Russia’s nuclear threats. But the Biden administration is still wary of escalating the war, writes Gideon...
Agreeing to Russia’s demand for a neutral Ukraine, as a new Republican presidency might, could leave the country at the mercy of Vladimir Putin’s...
The election centres on who scares voters the most. Republicans fear Kamala Harris will target white men, while Democrats say Donald Trump is a...
Millions of “never Trump” voters are unlikely to become “yes Trumpers”, however appalled they are by the vile attempted murder.
President Emmanuel Macron’s authority in Europe has shrunk after chaotic national elections, while the UK’s influence has been hobbled by Brexit.
Liberals are in for a long struggle as nationalist populism surges in the US and Europe, writes Gideon Rachman.
Runaway budget deficits and a confrontation with Brussels and Berlin is a formula for trouble.
The western alliance is intensifying its support for Ukraine in a way that was unthinkable at the beginning of the war.
Washington should dial down its claim to be protecting an international order that is clearly in decline, and instead talk up its defence of the free...
The question of how the US president responds to this, along with Congress, now becomes critical.
America and its allies see Russia, China, Iran and North Korea as an axis of adversaries.
The problem is that ‘ironclad’ support can be read as a blank cheque to Israel to take whatever military action it sees fit — confident that,...
The Russian leader sees an opportunity to re-establish a sphere of influence in Europe if Donald Trump is re-elected US president.
The US president must apply far more pressure on Israel’s prime minister to pull back on his military attacks in Gaza that have left thousands of...
Admirers of the Russian leader may soon lead the world’s largest democracies of India and the US, after Indonesia also elected a Putin fan this...
The obstacles to a successful Chinese invasion of the island nation following presidential elections on the weekend remain formidable.
I believe in America enough to think that it would take more than another term of Trump as president to destroy American democracy.
The country no longer has a convincing theory of victory. Unless they can come up with one, Western support for Ukraine will continue to waver.
There may be no way of dealing with the immediate disaster in Gaza without an agreement, at least on paper, on a long-term political fix.
Political division and turmoil at home are undermining US leadership overseas.