After U.S. president Donald Trump fired his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, many analysts have focused on how this high-level ouster took place: unceremoniously, on Twitter,...
Has Donald Trump made the final play in his hostile takeover of the Republican Party? His imposition of trade tariffs, opposed by almost all other party...
Soon after I enrolled as a graduate student at Cambridge University in 1964, I encountered a fellow student, two years ahead of me in his studies,...
This week, China’s national legislative body will likely vote to allow President Xi Jinping to remain in power – possibly for life. A change to the...
SEOUL — President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un shocked Americans and Koreans alike with their agreement to meet at a summit and go...
In January, over 700,000 Rohingya Muslims who escaped ethnic violence in Myanmar were supposed to begin a repatriation process back to the country they fled. The...
The New York Times reports today (Feb. 27) that the Syrian government’s use of banned chemical weapons against civilians in its long-running civil war may have...
For the past 10 years, The Economist has tracked the strength of democracy in 167 countries across the globe. Now, for the second consecutive year, the...
In the face of two nations seeking to redefine political power in the Middle East, small Qatar has proven resilient and resisted their advances, writes Juan...
Although the drumbeat of news reports may give the impression that much of the world is in crisis, the reality is quite the opposite, according to...
