The U.S. went looking for a show of force in Iran and ended up with a costly, inconclusive mess that made it look weaker, not stronger.

A costly war abroad has come at the expense of lifesaving aid, exposing the moral and strategic failure of prioritizing conflict over humanitarian leadership.

Trump’s ‘America First’ approach is weakening U.S. global power by dismantling the alliances, institutions, and sources of trust that once made American leadership effective.

The U.S. intervention in Venezuela may mark the emergence of a new era of remotely enforced neo-protectorates under great-power politics.

Ukraine’s drone war has become a fast-moving contest of adaptation, as evolving Shahed tactics—from low-altitude flight to networked targeting—are met by increasingly sophisticated, and soon autonomous, interceptor systems.

Washington can’t explain where tens of billions went in a war that changed nothing—except giving the Pentagon another excuse to ask for even more money.

Keir Starmer hopes King Charles III can save what's left of U.S.-UK relations. But is it worth salvaging?

The collapse of ceasefire talks is pushing the conflict into a volatile phase of maritime escalation around the Strait of Hormuz, where limited actions risk triggering a broader regional war.

China is methodically reshaping the global order by consolidating dominance in Asia and leveraging partnerships like Iran to indirectly strain U.S. power while avoiding direct confrontation.

The Russia–Ukraine war has fractured the Gypsy punk scene, forcing artists and fans to confront the collision of culture, identity, and politics.

Trump and Hegseth’s rhetoric on Iran risks normalizing the language of war crimes.

Britain should not be forced to choose between the United States and Europe, as a united transatlantic alliance remains essential to defending democratic values and countering global authoritarian threats.

A UN inquiry finds Russia’s deportation and long-term assimilation of Ukrainian children constitutes crimes against humanity and war crimes, raising urgent questions about accountability and identity erasure.

Lionel Jospin’s career embodied the promise and ultimate failure of Europe’s reformist left, culminating in a stunning political collapse in 2002.

Scott Kurashige argues that anti-Asian violence in the United States is not episodic but a recurring pattern shaped by war, racial ideology, and systemic inequality.

The U.S. and Israeli war with Iran has achieved one thing, it has finally put to bed any doubts about what a buffoon Donald Trump is.

Despite being a deeply flawed individual, Joe Kent's resignation letter criticizing the Trump administration’s illegal war with Iran should not be discounted.

It has become increasingly clear that Donald Trump is lying about Iran.

Trump’s war on Iran failed to weaken the regime, instead hardening its leadership while imposing greater strategic and economic costs on the United States.

A Ukrainian media producer explains how modern battlefield conditions have transformed war reporting in Ukraine.

Nobel laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk discusses Russia’s war in Ukraine, the erosion of international law, and the urgent need to rethink global institutions.

Resuming U.S. nuclear weapons testing would undermine arms control, weaken global nonproliferation efforts, and risk igniting a new nuclear arms race without improving national security.

Western allies who condemn Russia’s war in Ukraine have quietly endorsed—or excused—the U.S.–Israeli attack on Iran.

The U.S.–Israeli strikes on Iran are cynically justified by Western leaders who selectively invoke international law while endorsing regime change.

Trump and Netanyahu have dusted off the Iraq War playbook to sell another reckless assault on Iran.

Gen Z’s embrace of all things Chinese reflects a broader shift in global influence as China gains cultural and geopolitical traction.

Mikey Weinstein warns that rising Christian nationalism within the U.S. military threatens constitutional norms, internal cohesion, and national security.

Turkey’s mining ‘super bill’ sacrifices olive groves, forests, and heritage sites to politically connected energy interests while repressing rural resistance.

Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, invoked Václav Havel to argue that allies can no longer sustain comforting illusions about U.S.-led order and must confront a harsher strategic reality.

Trump’s manic obsessiveness with owning Greenland reveals how delusion is being repackaged as geopolitical necessity.

Rather than striking a blow for freedom, the president’s usurpation of Congress’s powers pulls the United States closer to Maduro’s Venezuela and further away from the Framers’ constitutional design.

At least Donald Trump dispensed with euphemisms, laying bare Washington’s imperial ambitions in Venezuela.

President Donald Trump’s self-styled ‘Don-roe Doctrine’ amounts to a lawless, gangster-style revival of Monroe-era imperialism.

The Muslim manosphere uses Islamic language to rebrand alt-right misogyny and radicalize vulnerable young men.

The Taliban are reshaping Afghanistan’s education system to indoctrinate youth and entrench ideological control rather than foster learning.

As Russia’s war strains Ukraine’s institutions, sociologist Hanna Hrytsenko argues that protecting women and LGBT+ service members is not a secondary concern but a strategic necessity for military cohesion, morale, and democratic resilience.

Big Pharma’s new direct-to-consumer drug sales, championed by President Trump, promise discounts but ultimately do little to lower real prescription costs for Americans.

A shadowy charity network, including Al-Majd Europe, is playing a central role in little-understood evacuations that critics say amount to the quiet removal of Palestinians from Gaza.

If Trump wanted to distract us from the Epstein files, bombing Nigeria would do it.

Donald Trump’s Asia tour tried to project strength but delivered hollow deals, exposing U.S. weakness and leaving China ascendant. But at least Trump scored a crown from South Korea.

The Royal British Legion launched its annual poppy appeal in Belgium to honor the fallen and support veterans ahead of Remembrance Day.

A Ukrainian Army lieutenant blends software innovation with battlefield pragmatism, arguing that technology may shape the war—but only human will can win it.

Belkis Wille of Human Rights Watch examines rising drone warfare, civilian targeting, and human rights abuses by both Russian and Ukrainian forces in Ukraine.

Kenya’s most promising ivory trafficking case collapsed after eight years amid police contradictions, vanished evidence, and judicial failures that let key cartel figures walk free.

UNICEF’s Toby Fricker details how the organization is racing to protect Ukraine’s children through winter—repairing heating and water systems, sustaining education and mental health support, and reaching the most vulnerable amid continued attacks on civilians.

For a guy who ran as the anti-war candidate, Donald Trump is rather trigger-happy when it comes to Venezuela.

The National Guard deployment in Los Angeles shows how President Trump’s use of the Insurrection Act turned protest policing into a blueprint for expanding presidential power and eroding democratic norms.

Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado was an odd choice given her apparent endorsement of overthrowing Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro.

At the UN, Netanyahu fused Palestinian self-determination into an Iran-led ‘terror axis,’ while glorifying assassinations and branding Gaza genocide claims as lies.

Pakistan's chickens have come home to roost.