A deepening spat between Russia and Azerbaijan shows Vladimir Putin's waning influence in the South Caucasus, analysts have ...

Vladimir Putin’s worldview, forged in the rigid, zero-sum logic of Soviet-era geopolitics, is central to this strategy. His ...

In June 2025, Kyiv destroyed a third of Russia’s nuclear bomber fleet in a meticulously planned strike codenamed “Operation ...

America’s economy surged in the second quarter of the year, as Donald Trump’s tariffs slashed imports and so boosted the ...

Vladimir Putin’s “colossal error” in Ukraine is setting the stage for a potential collapse of the Russian Federation, ...

Trump’s on-again, off-again approach to tariffs is also entirely consistent with this explanation: He likes tariffs because ...

Senate Republicans confirmed Justice Department official Emil Bove to a lifetime appointment as an appeals court judge ...

One way or other, it looks like Russia could soon be slapped with a fresh round of U.S. sanctions. On July 23, 2025, a ...

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While they are impossible to measure, emotions such as liking or hatred, admiration or contempt—the quotidian stuff of human ...

Pope Leo XIV met with a top Russian Orthodox cleric, the first such visit from Moscow since the papal election, and one that ...

A problem with lengthy sanctions regimes is that as trade diminishes, they tend to become less effective. As economist Albert Hirschman argued in his seminal work on trade and power, trade is both a ...