What in the World?
What in the World?Test yourself on the week of Oct. 19: BRICS members gather in Russia, several countries vote, and Blinken makes yet another trip to the Middle East.
What in the World?Test yourself on the week of Oct. 19: BRICS members gather in Russia, several countries vote, and Blinken makes yet another trip to the Middle East.
Where Is the Massive Hezbollah Response to Israel’s Attacks?The devastating bombardment anticipated by many has failed to materialize.
Why This Year’s Nobel in Economics Is So ControversialThe award has elicited unusually strong criticism—and for good reason.
Could Elections Reverse Georgia’s Break-Up With the West?The country’s drift away from Washington and Brussels has pushed it closer to Moscow and Beijing.
What Will a Post-Xi China Look Like?Kevin Rudd on the fragility of Xi’s long-term ideological project.
A new documentary opens a rare window into the workings of Afghanistan’s new masters.
How the Dollar Became a Double-Edged SwordWashington’s hands-off currency policy has produced a dominant dollar—and collateral damage at home and abroad.
Singer Akon wanted to help his childhood country—but tokens were a dead end.
A Western Victory Plan for UkraineLofty rhetoric can’t hide the lack of serious thinking about what a credible victory would entail.
Russia Fights Western Isolation Efforts With BRICS SummitThe three-day event will seek to address two major wars and global dependence on the U.S. dollar-dominated banking system.