Politics

Trump’s strategy is not about surrendering Ukraine to Russia—it is about reshaping America’s role through a recalibration of leadership and strategic leverage.

It is not true that Trump has no way to quickly bring Putin to the table for real negotiations.

President Trump listed numerous triumphs in his speech to Congress on Tuesday as part of his effort to create a new “golden age” in America. In reality, it's all fool’s...

Baghdad has good reason to be concerned about the trajectory of the U.S.-Iraqi relationship.

If sanctions were going to have an effect on global reserve holdings, we presumably would have seen it by now.

Small concessions on immigration are insufficient if the fundamental position is deemed wrong by the majority of the electorate. The first phase of the Trump administration’s mass deportations has been...

In 2025, it’s reasonable to be skeptical that American colleges and universities are an effective venue for educating foreign students about American values and governance. President Trump’s recent executive order...

Germany’s political crisis may offer an opportunity to put this essential partnership on a more sustainable path forward.

If he wants an effective governing majority, Chancellor Friedrich Merz must invite the AfD into the government. Germany’s election this week put the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian...

Like Richard Nixon, Donald Trump understands that periods of geopolitical reordering offer generational opportunities to update and reconfigure the world system. Recently, I found myself going through some materials about...

Incoming German chancellor Friedrich Merz is working overtime to warn Germans that the time of stagnation that prevailed under the former chancellor Olaf Scholz must come to an end.

What sets Trump apart is his willingness to take big risks in pursuit of big wins.