But much of China’s historical evolution continues to defy Western understanding, and many of its leaders remain tantalizing conundrums—few more so than Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the ...

To sustain its war against Ukraine, Russia militarized its economy. Although—contrary to popular belief abroad—the Russian economy is not on a full wartime footing, the Kremlin has both splurged on ...

In August, just days after U.S. President Donald Trump had welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin to a summit in Alaska, a remarkable image emerged from the White House. Ukrainian President ...

She served as the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from 2021 to 2025. In November 1988, the Morris worm—an experimental ...

Today, they are debating an update to the European Chips Act, which was finalized in 2023 and allocated billions of euros to subsidize chip-making on the continent. The act was meant to increase ...

AMOS YADLIN is Founder and President of MIND Israel. He is a retired Major General in the Israeli Air Force and served as the head of Israel’s Defense Intelligence from 2006 to 2010.

The total market capitalization of China’s publicly listed biotech firms has reached $1.5 trillion, second only to that of the United States. As China surges, many traditional American strengths have ...

ZEID RA’AD AL-HUSSEIN is President of the International Peace Institute and a member of The Elders. He was UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2014 to 2018 and before that served as Jordan’s ...

The first phase of the U.S.-brokered cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas is a tremendous achievement, securing the release of hostages held by Hamas for over two years and the end to a ...

BEATRICE MAGISTRO is Assistant Professor of AI Governance at Northeastern University. SOPHIE BORWEIN is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. R. MICHAEL ...

But the Trump plan’s gradualism is hardly novel in the context of crisis diplomacy in the Middle East. On the contrary, a phased approach, addressing the challenges of both immediate de-escalation and ...