The Cold War is often portrayed as a great power struggle between the forces of democracy and a spreading communist threat.

For days, Donald Trump — impetuous, intuitive, instinctive, but not known for introspection — grappled with the path forward in Iran, and with his historical legacy. Would he unleash the GBU-57 bunker ...

Direct warfare among great powers, once assumed inevitable, is now avoided not only because of nuclear risk, but also because of economic suicide. As Joseph Nye notes, in an interconnected world, ...

Elections in South Carolina and New York; a bombing run in Iran; a push for One Big Ugly Bill: It’s been quite a week.

Amol Rajan interviews Martina Navratilova, discussing her life from Cold War defector to tennis great and the many challenges ...

The Life and the Revolution That Changed America,' it is impossible to understand American politics and culture without grasping Buckley’s immense influence.

India’s inconsistent stance on Gaza reflects a broader diplomatic drift — from principled leadership to transactional ...

Independent India was born when Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled the country’s tricolour flag and addressed the Indian Constituent Assembly in Parliament at the midnight hour on 15 August 1947. India had won ...

In The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 Vladislav Zubok argues that circumstance rather than ideology shaped the clash between communism and capitalism. In Vitaly Mansky’s wistful 2020 documentary ...

OPINION- For days, Donald Trump – impetuous, intuitive, instinctive, but not known for introspection — grappled with the path forward in Iran, and with his historical legacy.

Robert Kaplan’s latest book on big geopolitical questions reflects a shift away from high-minded ideals in US establishment thought. But instead of self-critical pragmatism, what he offers as a ...

In John Stossel’s Monday commentary, he continues to look at the world in black and white. Capitalism, he believes, is good, and socialism is bad. He states that 62 percent of young people have ...