United States President Donald Trump’s May 2026 visit to Beijing was neither a diplomatic triumph nor a clean end to the trade war his first administration launched nearly a decade ago. Instead, it ...

Without policy reform and African cooperation, anti-immigration sentiment will remain a crisis for South Africa. June 29, 2026: Demonstrators carrying traditional shields and sticks call for the ...

Mali’s escalating crisis reveals how state failure, insurgency and resource competition increasingly intertwine. On May 21, 2026, the Stimson Center in Washington, D.C., hosted a panel entitled “A ...

Armenia’s warming relations with Europe, Turkiye and Azerbaijan are both a product and a driver of fading Russian influence in the South Caucasus. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (right) ...

UK politics will be reshaped by identity, demographics, legal paralysis and fiscal strain, shifting voters into nationalist, cosmopolitan and liberal blocs. British politics is once again in visible ...

The NATO summit in Ankara delivered quiet success, spotlighting Europe’s growing reliance on Turkiye’s military muscle and a renewed transatlantic bond. Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine was a wake-up ...

Over the past few months, the lawsuit Elon Musk filed against OpenAI gave the public a rare glimpse into the engine room of the company that, more than any other, defined the new artificial ...

After the supreme leader’s death, the Revolutionary Guards are holding firm and steering Iran toward escalation and continued repression. Jan. 12, 2026: Muhammad Baqir Qalibaf, Iranian parliamentary ...

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the country has become one of the most heavily sanctioned in modern history. Unprecedented and coordinated measures from the United ...

President-elect Nawrocki’s win weakens Prime Minister Donald Tusk and sets Warsaw on a more U.S.-aligned, Brussels-wary course. On August 6, conservative Karol Nawrocki takes the oath of office as ...

China’s dominance over rare earths gives Beijing powerful leverage in trade, technology and strategic negotiations. Metal cubes representing rare earth elements including neodymium (Nd), praseodymium ...

Some countries have a stranglehold on the materials the world needs to build a low-carbon economy. By 2030, at least 300 new mines – for materials like cobalt, copper, graphite, lithium, nickel, rare ...