Commentary / World Sep 2, 2021

The Afghanistan war wasn’t a cynical misadventure

When once-good wars go bad, Americans tend to conclude that there was never anything redeeming about them in the first place.

Commentary / World Apr 28, 2021

The Cold War playbook won’t help Alexei Navalny

That Navalny ended his hunger strike and his life isn’t in imminent danger — for now — doesn't remove the underlying issue.

Commentary / World Oct 11, 2020

Little war in the Caucasus has big lessons for U.S. and Russia

The resumption of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh against Armenia, a longtime enemy of Turkey, indicates the war is part of a larger Turkish power play.

Commentary / World Jul 14, 2020

The upside of a new cold war with China

Competition with the Soviet Union brought out the best in American democracy.

Commentary / World Jul 5, 2020

Putin wins 16 more years of reckless behavior

The West consistently underestimates the Russian president's willingness to take extreme risks.

Commentary / World Jun 30, 2020

China’s rise heralds return of the domino theory

Seventy years ago the Korean War raised legitimate fears that one U.S. loss could set off communist victories across the globe.

Commentary / World Jun 23, 2020

Hungary's Orban uses COVID-19 crisis for another power grab

Cracking down on an authoritarian regime, even a seemingly inconsequential one, would send a message to America's other backsliding allies.

Commentary / World Jun 15, 2020

U.S.-Germany crisis goes deeper than Trump’s planned troop cuts

The U.S.-German relationship has held the key to European security for seven decades.

Commentary / World Jun 2, 2020

China's border invasion will push India toward the U.S.

India’s long history of nonalignment is giving way to the threat of a shared enemy.

Commentary / World May 31, 2020

Coronavirus hasn’t killed the global balance of power

Americans who hail a new era of global cooperation haven’t been paying attention to what China is up to.